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During recent decades regional economies in Canada have experienced several substantial shocks. International price changes have probably played the most prominent role, and the variations in oil and grain prices are the spectacular examples. But policy changes may also have had regional impacts, including changes in taxes, federal-provincial fiscal arrangements, and unemployment insurance reform. The basic purpose of this paper is to examine how regions adjust to these kinds of shocks. Regional disparities in incomes, wages and unemployment rates are obviously related to this shock-adjustment process, and an important goal of this research is to draw some implications about the nature and causes of these regional disparities.
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Vanderkamp, J. (1989). The Role of Migration in Regional Adjustment. In: Van Dijk, J., Folmer, H., Herzog, H.W., Schlottmann, A.M. (eds) Migration and Labor Market Adjustment. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7846-2_7
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