Canadian Journal of Regional Science back issues from June 2004:
Balkanisation des infrastructures de telecommunications et management du territoire: une approche par l'economie des reseaux *.
Jun 22, 2004; ... Abstract In the Internet-based society, telecommunications infrastructures are nowadays powerful devices for localized economic growth. In this way, there are subject to strategies of infrastructure installation coming from suppliers and/or public communities, and strategies of ...
Social assistance use in Canada: national and provincial trends in incidence, entry and exit *.
Jun 22, 2004; ... Abstract Canada witnessed a dramatic decline in welfare participation from 1993/94 to the end of the nineties--one almost on a par with the U.S., but without the sort of landmark legislation adopted there. We explore the dynamics of Social Assistance usage in Canada over this ...
Ageing population and immigration in Canada: an analysis with a regional CGE overlapping generations model *.
Jun 22, 2004; ... Abstract This paper uses both a demographic model and a regional overlapping generations model calibrated on Canadian data to evaluate the potential economic-welfare and intergenerational equity implications of increasing the number of immigrants on national and regional labour ...
Regional and sectoral growth in Canada's emerging economy.
Jun 22, 2004; ... Abstract This paper studies regional and sectoral concentrations of business activity in Canada. The analysis compares the spatial and sectoral characteristics of rapidly-growing firms, Next Wave businesses, with the largest firms in the country, Establishment businesses. The ...
Longitudinal estimates of child poverty in the Maritimes versus the rest of Canada *.
Jun 22, 2004; ... Abstract We use the first 3 cycles of the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (1994, 1996 and 1998) to compare longitudinal estimates of child poverty in the Maritimes and the test of Canada. We compare how many children ever encountered poverty as well as how ...
Desirable properties of an unconventional population control policy *.(RESEARCH NOTES/NOTES DE RECHERCHE)(One (male) child policy)
Jun 22, 2004; ... Abstract A great deal of concern has now been expressed about the authoritarian population control policies adopted by Asian countries such as Vietnam, India, and particularly China. Many of these autocratic policies and certainly the Chinese 'one child policy' have failed in ...
Tax Facts 13.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... Tax Facts 13. Niels Veldhuis, Joel Emes and Michael Walker. Vancouver: The Fraser Institute, 2003. ISBN 0-88975-203-6, xv + 119 pp., pb. My nickname in some quarters is Mr Micawber, so it might not surprise you that I greatly enjoyed reading this short book on the workings of ...
Reconversion economique et developpement territorial. Le role de la societe civile.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... Reconversion economique et developpement territorial. Le role de la societe civile. Jean-Marc Fontain, Juan-Luis Klein et Benoit Levesque. Quebec: Presses de l'Universite du Quebec, Coll. <<Geographie contemporaine>>, 2003. ISBN : 2-7605-1244-4, D-1244, 356 p., 45$ canadiens. ...
La nouvelle economie; Ou, Quoi? Comment?(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... La nouvelle economie; Ou, Quoi? Comment? Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay et David Rolland (dirs.). Quebec: Les Presses de l'Universite du Quebec, Collection <<Etudes d'economie politique>>, 2003. ISBN : 2-7605-1266-5, D-1266, 224 p., 39$ canadiens. Ce livre nous presente une collection ...
The Vancouver Achievement: Urban Planning and Design.(Book Review)
Jun 22, 2004; ... The Vancouver Achievement: Urban Planning and Design. John Punter. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2003. ISBN: 0774809728, 480 p., $89 Cdn. hardback, $39.95 Cdn. paper back. For myself, having taught planning and lived in Vancouver for the past 13 years, The Vancouver Achievement is a ...