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The Geographies of Precarious Labour in Canada
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The Geographies of Precarious Labour in Canada

Abstract

Using Statistics Canada’s 2011-2016 Labor Force Surveys, this paper examines the spatial dimensions of precarious forms of employment (PFE) in Canada. We first compare different PFEs across a range of geographies including national, provincial, census metropolitan areas and urban/rural areas. The results show that different PFEs exhibited distinct spatial patterns across space and scale. Second, using logistic regression models, results show …

Authors

Ali WK; Newbold KB; Mills SE

Journal

Canadian Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 43, No. 1, pp. 58–70

Publisher

Consortium Erudit

DOI

10.7202/1083581ar

ISSN

0705-4580