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As we see, urban living is a very recent development. For most of our history, humans lived in low-density, rural settings. Prior to 1000, it's estimated that the share of the world population living in urban settings did not reach 5%. By 1800, this share reached around 8%; and by 1900 had increased to around 16%.
Although the gap in earnings across provinces can be quite large, it is often smaller than the gap across urban–rural areas, with urbanized areas having generally higher earnings than rural areas and larger urban areas having generally higher earnings than smaller urban areas (Beckstead and Brown 2005).
Dec 1, 2011 · If income varies systematically by occupation, then places with a less favorable occupational distribution will suffer from lower average income. In LDCs there is, in fact, a smaller proportion of higher income occupations in rural areas than urban, and a much larger proportion of low income farming (Table 4, columns 1–3). This urban–rural ...
- Richard A. Easterlin, Laura Angelescu, Jacqueline S. Zweig
- 2011
Nova Scotia and Manitoba had the largest rural-urban gap in per capita incomes. In each province, the per capita income in the rural regions was less than the urban per capita income in each of the last 4 census years – thus, there was a negative rural-urban income gap within each province, as shown in Figure 3.
- Vik Singh
Per capita income growth rises from near-stagnation to modern levels. Urban households suffer higher child mortality than rural households, so the relative wage in urban areas is high because households must be compensated for moving to the deadly city. Footnote 5 As human capital grows, increased knowledge reduces mortality. Declines in the ...
Preferences are defined over the consumption of both goods, and the income elasticity of the agricultural good is assumed to be less than that of the manufacturing good and below unity. In such a setup, output growth is higher in the urban sector than in the rural one, whereas rural income falls relative to the urban counterpart.
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The Atlantic Provinces ranked at the top for rural income growth for the 1980–2000 period, led by New Brunswick. Since most of the Atlantic Provinces had lower per capita income in 1980, this meant that they experienced a larger ‘catch-up effect’ leading to higher rural per capita income growth than the other provinces. Ontario which had ...
