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Poverty in C anada: Does Manufacturing Matter?
Author(s) -
Deaton B. James,
Hailu Getu,
Zhou Xiaoye
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
growth and change
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.657
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1468-2257
pISSN - 0017-4815
DOI - 10.1111/grow.12039
Subject(s) - poverty , manufacturing sector , economics , demographic economics , labour economics , economic growth
We focus our research on this question: Does an expansion in the percentage of labour employed in the manufacturing sector lead to reductions in the poverty rate? While some research suggests that regional differences in the employment share of the manufacturing sector explain variation in poverty rates, we do not find empirical evidence of this poverty‐ameliorating effect in our regression analysis of C anadian C ensus D istricts between the years 2001 and 2006.