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Record W4416573472 · doi:10.7202/1121800ar

Spatial Misallocation in Canada

2025· article· en· W4416573472 on OpenAlexaffvenueabout
M. Jahangir Alam, Herb Emery

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Journal of Regional Science · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicRegional Economics and Spatial Analysis
Canadian institutionsUniversity of New Brunswick
Fundersnot available
KeywordsProductivitySubsidyProduction (economics)Capital (architecture)Factors of productionHuman capital

Abstract

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Factor misallocation across firms has been well-documented and for Canada, it appears that spatial misallocation of labour and capital across regions may have important implications for national economic growth. Spatial misallocation hinders economic efficiency by preventing resources from being allocated to their most productive uses, thereby constraining growth. Using Canadian data from 2000 to 2018, we find that labour productivity increased by approximately 1% annually, while capital productivity declined by around 1% per year. This is concurrent with an increase in the spatial misallocation of labour and a decrease in the spatial misallocation of capital. We examine the factors correlated with these inefficiencies and find that production subsidies are positively associated with higher spatial misallocation of factors, suggesting that such subsidies may help sustain less productive firms, dampening national economic growth.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.005
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.053
Threshold uncertainty score0.387

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.005
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0030.010
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0020.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.018
GPT teacher head0.192
Teacher spread0.174 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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