Regional Economic Policy: The Canadian Experience

Lithwick, N. H.

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“…The depiction that we have provided of the Alberta economy and its relative strength compared to Saskatchewan and Canada as a whole in the years after 1947 is confirmed in other studies such as Hanson (1958), as described above, Coffey and Polèse (1987a), Lithwick (1977), and Mansell and Percy (1990).…”

Section: B Other Analysts' Descriptions Of the Alberta Economysupporting

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Petropolitics : Petroleum Development, Markets and Regulations, Alberta as an Illustrative History

MacFadyen¹,

Watkins²

2014

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Section: B Other Analysts' Descriptions Of the Alberta Economysupporting

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Petropolitics : Petroleum Development, Markets and Regulations, Alberta as an Illustrative History

MacFadyen¹,

Watkins²

2014

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“…It has been long been accepted as an integral part of the Canadian national identity that, from a regional economic development perspective, the Atlantic Provinces generally perform well below the national average, while the performance of Ontario (certain temporary downturns notwithstanding) is generally well above average; Quebec and the Western Provinces, except in the context of the latter's oil booms, have tended to situate themselves between the two extremes. (The Economic Council of Canada (1977), Lithwick (1978), Coffey and Polèse (1987b), Anderson (1988), Bradfield (1988), and Savoie (1992) provide basic information on the long-standing disparities between Canada's regions.) Does a similar (or alternative) logic hold in the case of the performance of the individual elements of the urban system?…”

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The Growth and Location of High Order Services in the Canadian Urban System, 1971–1991

Coffey

Shearmur

1997

The Professional Geographer

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In spite of the considerable economic importance of high order (intermediate demand) services, research on the growth and location of these activities has remained at a fairly aggregate level. The behavior of the individual elements of this group has rarely been documented in detail. In this paper, we seek to determine if individual high order service activities are becoming spatially more concentrated or dispersed across the Canadian urban system, and to determine if differential rates of growth may be observed by region and by urban size category. These issues are of considerable importance in the ongoing debate concerning the impact of the tertiarization of the economy on uneven spatial development. We examine the performance and location of 17 individual high order service activities over a set of 152 Canadian urban areas with populations greater than 10,000 inhabitants. Most of these activities are highly concentrated in a small number of very large urban areas, and their level of concentration declined only very slightly over the period 1971-1991. We conclude with an examination of the factors underlying the geographic concentration of high order services at the upper end of the urban hierarchy. Key Words: high order services, employment, uneven development, spatial concentration, urban system.

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“…NOTES 1. See Economic Council of Canada (1977), Lithwick (1978), Coffey and Polèse (1987), Anderson (1988), Bradfield (1988), and Savoie (1992), for example, for more information on the long-standing disparities between Canada's regions. 2.…”

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Factors and Correlates of Employment Growth in the Canadian Urban System, 1971–1991

Coffey

Shearmur

1998

Growth and Change

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The objective of this paper is to examine a number of hypotheses concerning the factors or correlates of employment growth in the Canadian urban system-a set of 152 urban areas having populations of more than ten thousand inhabitants which comprises 77.4 percent of the national population. Do observed patterns of sectoral employment growth obey some sort of underlying logic? More specifically, do the rates of employment growth that are found in individual urban areas vary significantly according to one or more of the following attributes of an urban area: a) the region in which it is located; b) its population size; c) its relative proximity to a major metropolitan area; d) its firm size structure; e) the level of diversity of its economic structure; and f) its socioeconomic characteristics? While approaches involving a, e and f yield promising results, it is clear that there are few immutable laws that permit one to predict where employment growth will occur within the urban system. Perhaps the most fundamental characteristic of the analyses conducted involves the instability of the results from one decade to another; one decade's category of winners is often the other decade's category of losers.

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Regional Economic Policy: The Canadian Experience

Cited by 4 publications

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Petropolitics : Petroleum Development, Markets and Regulations, Alberta as an Illustrative History

Petropolitics : Petroleum Development, Markets and Regulations, Alberta as an Illustrative History

The Growth and Location of High Order Services in the Canadian Urban System, 1971–1991

Factors and Correlates of Employment Growth in the Canadian Urban System, 1971–1991

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