Sébastien Breau
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1474612 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sébastien Breau |
| NOMBRES | Sébastien |
| APELLIDO | Breau |
| FIRMA | BREAU S |
| AFILIACIONES | McGill University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5594-2674 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 88 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2006 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Scales of Inequality
A substantial body of research has documented the shift from convergence to divergence in inter-regional income disparities and identified the key forces driving this transformation, including educational sorting, technological change and globalization. Yet, despite growing recognition that spatial patterns of income inequality are sensitive to the choice of geographical scale, relatively few studies have explored scalar dynamics in the U.S. In t…
Mapping regional disparities in labour market risk and exposure to automation in Canada
The evolution of the Kuznets curve in Canada
Challenging transitions? Assessing the occupational mobility patterns of US immigrants by gender
This article uses the New Immigrant Survey to assess the occupational mobility of US immigrants. Estimates from OLS and Heckman selection models show the occupational mobility of immigrants follows a U‐shaped pattern: immigrants arriving in the United States see their occupational status decline before it gradually improves. However, even 9 years after coming to the United States, the occupational status of immigrants remains lower than prior to …
Energy poverty
Exposure to energy poverty is associated with significantly increased likelihood of poor general and mental health. Given the high proportion of Canadian households facing energy poverty, with demonstrated implications for population health, tackling energy poverty is essential for an equitable energy transition and for climate resilience
Inclusive growth, public transit infrastructure investments and neighbourhood trajectories of inequality in Montreal
Investing in accessible, affordable and sustainable modes of transportation is increasingly seen as an important policy tool for fostering the development of more inclusive cities and combating the rise in inequality. In this article, we review how the concept of inclusive growth has gained traction at the local level framed within a discourse of building more equitable and sustainable cities with a particular emphasis on transportation infrastru…
The Academic Job Market in U.S. Geography and the Business Cycle
The Great Recession of 2007–2009 had profound effects on all sectors of the U.S. economy. In this article we assess the relationship between the academic job market in U.S. geography and the business cycle. Specifically, we examine the responsiveness of the job market to the business cycle since the early 1970s, the impacts of the Great Recession on hiring, and how hiring networks changed with the recession. For our analyses we draw on data from …
Is it time to start worrying more about growing regional inequalities in Canada
Much has been written recently about the rise of within‐country inequality and growing imbalances of regional fortunes in the United States and the European Union. In this paper, we apply a novel geo‐visualization technique that combines local indicators of spatial association with directional statistics to a unique dataset in order to explore the spatial dimensions of regional income inequalities in Canada from 1981 to 2016. After describing a p…
Exploring the Causes and Consequences of Regional Income Inequality in Canada
The recent surge in populist movements sweeping many countries has brought into focus the issue of regional inequality. In this article, we develop a panel data set for Canada that includes information on 284 regions observed at 5-year intervals (from 1981 to 2011) and estimate a series of spatial econometric models to study the causes and consequences of regional inequality. Our results draw attention to the fact that the rise in inequality at t…
In the Footsteps of Mackintosh and Innis
In this article, we track the historical movement in Canada’s economic centre of gravity (ECG) since the early 20th century. A simple weighted mean centre approach is applied to a novel data set containing long-run estimates of household income at the provincial level. The analysis reveals that from 1926 to 2013, Canada’s ECG shifted westward by a net distance of 204 kilometres. Concomitant with this broad geographical shift, we identify six dist…
Locating geographies of inequality
This paper examines journal publications and article citations on the subject of the spatial dimensions of income inequality within the social sciences. A systematic literature review methodology is used to develop a dataset containing 2944 articles published between 1980 and 2014. Analysis reveals that the number of papers soared in the late 1990s with significant differences (1) between papers focusing on the causes versus consequences of inequ…
Regional income disparities in Canada
The existing literature on convergence in Canada largely ignores the underlying geographical dimensions of regional disparities. By using income measures developed from census micro-data files to analyze patterns of convergence across census divisions, we show that regional disparities are increasingly clustered across the Canadian space-economy along (1) East–West and (2) urban–rural gradients. Rural census divisions in the Eastern provinces, in…
A Spatial Analysis of Precarious Forms of Employment in F rance
This paper provides the first detailed analysis of the spatial dimensions of precarious employment across the F rench territory. We find that different forms of precarious employment exhibit different spatial patterns. The most striking locational pattern is shown by fixed‐term contracts and part‐time work where we observe clusters of high levels of precarious employment primarily in southern regions. Northern regions, in contrast, are characteri…
Nouvelles perspectives en développement régional
Nouvelles perspectives en développement régional
The Occupy Movement and the Top 1% in Canada
The Occupy movement catalyzed public debate on the issue of growing income inequality. This paper examines recent patterns of inequality in Canada, paying particular attention to changes in the characteristics of the top 1% of income earners. At the national level, the gap between the top percentile and the other 99% has widened considerably: in 2006, 11% of the nation's income was concentrated in the hands of top earners (whose mean income of $3…
On the Relationship between Innovation and Wage Inequality
In this article, we examine the link between innovation and earnings inequality acrossCanadian cities over the 1996-2006 period. We do so using a novel data set that combines information from theCanadian long-form census and theUnitedStatesPatent andTrademarkOffice. The analysis reveals that there is a positive relationship between innovation and inequality: cities with higher levels of innovation have more unequal distributions of earnings. Othe…
Commentary
(no abstract available)
Growing Unequal? Changes in the Distribution of Earnings across Canadian Cities
This paper investigates changes in the distribution of earnings across 87 metropolitan areas in Canada. It does so using micro data taken from the 20 per cent long-form sample of the census for the years 1996, 2001 and 2006. Results point to overall increases in urban inequality and to greater heterogeneity in inequality across the urban hierarchy, with larger cities growing particularly unequal over time. Cross-sectional and panel regression mod…
Conflict and human African trypanosomiasis
Low-Income-Country Import Competition and the Structure of Earnings Inequality in Canada, 1996-2001
This paper uses a detailed employer-employee dataset to test the effects of low-income-country import competition on the earnings of workers in manufacturing industries in Canada. From 1996 to 2001 earnings inequality increased: the wage gap between manufacturing workers with a university degree and those without a high school diploma rose from 35% to 43%. Greater import competition is found to explain part of the growing wage gap, consistent wit…
International trade and wage inequality in Canada
Journal Article International trade and wage inequality in Canada Get access Sébastien Breau, Sébastien Breau **Department of Geography, McGill University, 805 Sherbrooke Street West, Montréal, Québec, H3A 2K6, Canada. email Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David L. Rigby David L. Rigby †Department of Geography, UCLA, 1255 Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, California, 90095, USA. email Search for other works by thi…
Exports and Local Labor Markets in the Greater Los Angeles Region
Using U.S. Census Bureau microdata and IMPLAN regional estimates to construct a unique employer-employee dataset, this study explores the impact of exports across labor markets in the Greater Los Angeles region during the 1990s. The analysis reveals significant variation in the intrametropolitan distribution of export-related activities, with Long Beach, El Segundo, Hawthorne, and Irvine recording the highest export intensities in the region. The…
Impacts of Trade on Wage Inequality in Los Angeles
Over the last thirty years wage inequality has accelerated markedly in the United States, reversing the trend of the previous half-century. The growth in inequality parallels the rapid rise in U.S. imports, particularly from developing economies. Standard trade theory suggests that the wages of unskilled workers relative to skilled workers will decline in developed economies as a result of greater competition from developing economies that have a…
Participation in Export Markets and Productivity of Plants in Los Angeles, 1987-1997
This article investigates the relationship between the productivity of plants and participation in export markets in the greater Los Angeles area using unpublished plant-level data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Research Database. Two key questions are examined: (1) do plants that export learn in foreign markets and become more efficient, or (2) do more efficient plants self-select into export markets? The results support previous cla…
Growing Unequal? Changes in the Distribution of Earnings across Canadian Cities
This paper investigates changes in the distribution of earnings across 87 metropolitan areas in Canada. It does so using micro data taken from the 20 per cent long-form sample of the census for the years 1996, 2001 and 2006. Results point to overall increases in urban inequality and to greater heterogeneity in inequality across the urban hierarchy, with larger cities growing particularly unequal over time. Cross-sectional and panel regression mod…
Regional income disparities in Canada
The existing literature on convergence in Canada largely ignores the underlying geographical dimensions of regional disparities. By using income measures developed from census micro-data files to analyze patterns of convergence across census divisions, we show that regional disparities are increasingly clustered across the Canadian space-economy along (1) East–West and (2) urban–rural gradients. Rural census divisions in the Eastern provinces, in…
Locating geographies of inequality
This paper examines journal publications and article citations on the subject of the spatial dimensions of income inequality within the social sciences. A systematic literature review methodology is used to develop a dataset containing 2944 articles published between 1980 and 2014. Analysis reveals that the number of papers soared in the late 1990s with significant differences (1) between papers focusing on the causes versus consequences of inequ…
Energy poverty
Exposure to energy poverty is associated with significantly increased likelihood of poor general and mental health. Given the high proportion of Canadian households facing energy poverty, with demonstrated implications for population health, tackling energy poverty is essential for an equitable energy transition and for climate resilience
Exploring the Causes and Consequences of Regional Income Inequality in Canada
The recent surge in populist movements sweeping many countries has brought into focus the issue of regional inequality. In this article, we develop a panel data set for Canada that includes information on 284 regions observed at 5-year intervals (from 1981 to 2011) and estimate a series of spatial econometric models to study the causes and consequences of regional inequality. Our results draw attention to the fact that the rise in inequality at t…
On the Relationship between Innovation and Wage Inequality
In this article, we examine the link between innovation and earnings inequality acrossCanadian cities over the 1996-2006 period. We do so using a novel data set that combines information from theCanadian long-form census and theUnitedStatesPatent andTrademarkOffice. The analysis reveals that there is a positive relationship between innovation and inequality: cities with higher levels of innovation have more unequal distributions of earnings. Othe…
International trade and wage inequality in Canada
Journal Article International trade and wage inequality in Canada Get access Sébastien Breau, Sébastien Breau **Department of Geography, McGill University, 805 Sherbrooke Street West, Montréal, Québec, H3A 2K6, Canada. email Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David L. Rigby David L. Rigby †Department of Geography, UCLA, 1255 Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, California, 90095, USA. email Search for other works by thi…
Conflict and human African trypanosomiasis
Income inequality across Canadian provinces in an era of globalization
In this article, I use panel data methods to investigate possible factors influencing recent trends in income inequality across Canadian provinces. The ratio of the income share of the highest‐to‐lowest quintiles and the Gini coefficient of total income are used as measures of inequality. Both point to rising levels of inequality from 1981 to 1999, especially during the 1990s, and the estimation results suggest that several factors have had signi…
Place and the Geography of Italian Export Performance
Studies of contemporary economic development within industrialized societies often focus upon the local scale of analysis. From the positive externalities linked with agglomeration to the role which local institutions can play in altering regional economic trajectories, there is a tendency within economic geography to ‘go local’. Though there is much to be gleaned from local, firm-based research, the fact that the local is situated within other s…
The Occupy Movement and the Top 1% in Canada
The Occupy movement catalyzed public debate on the issue of growing income inequality. This paper examines recent patterns of inequality in Canada, paying particular attention to changes in the characteristics of the top 1% of income earners. At the national level, the gap between the top percentile and the other 99% has widened considerably: in 2006, 11% of the nation's income was concentrated in the hands of top earners (whose mean income of $3…
Impacts of Trade on Wage Inequality in Los Angeles
Over the last thirty years wage inequality has accelerated markedly in the United States, reversing the trend of the previous half-century. The growth in inequality parallels the rapid rise in U.S. imports, particularly from developing economies. Standard trade theory suggests that the wages of unskilled workers relative to skilled workers will decline in developed economies as a result of greater competition from developing economies that have a…
In the Footsteps of Mackintosh and Innis
In this article, we track the historical movement in Canada’s economic centre of gravity (ECG) since the early 20th century. A simple weighted mean centre approach is applied to a novel data set containing long-run estimates of household income at the provincial level. The analysis reveals that from 1926 to 2013, Canada’s ECG shifted westward by a net distance of 204 kilometres. Concomitant with this broad geographical shift, we identify six dist…
A Spatial Analysis of Precarious Forms of Employment in F rance
This paper provides the first detailed analysis of the spatial dimensions of precarious employment across the F rench territory. We find that different forms of precarious employment exhibit different spatial patterns. The most striking locational pattern is shown by fixed‐term contracts and part‐time work where we observe clusters of high levels of precarious employment primarily in southern regions. Northern regions, in contrast, are characteri…
Commentary
(no abstract available)
The evolution of the Kuznets curve in Canada
Challenging transitions? Assessing the occupational mobility patterns of US immigrants by gender
This article uses the New Immigrant Survey to assess the occupational mobility of US immigrants. Estimates from OLS and Heckman selection models show the occupational mobility of immigrants follows a U‐shaped pattern: immigrants arriving in the United States see their occupational status decline before it gradually improves. However, even 9 years after coming to the United States, the occupational status of immigrants remains lower than prior to …
Is it time to start worrying more about growing regional inequalities in Canada
Much has been written recently about the rise of within‐country inequality and growing imbalances of regional fortunes in the United States and the European Union. In this paper, we apply a novel geo‐visualization technique that combines local indicators of spatial association with directional statistics to a unique dataset in order to explore the spatial dimensions of regional income inequalities in Canada from 1981 to 2016. After describing a p…
Participation in Export Markets and Productivity of Plants in Los Angeles, 1987-1997
This article investigates the relationship between the productivity of plants and participation in export markets in the greater Los Angeles area using unpublished plant-level data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Research Database. Two key questions are examined: (1) do plants that export learn in foreign markets and become more efficient, or (2) do more efficient plants self-select into export markets? The results support previous cla…
Place and the Geography of Italian Export Performance
Studies of contemporary economic development within industrialized societies often focus upon the local scale of analysis. From the positive externalities linked with agglomeration to the role which local institutions can play in altering regional economic trajectories, there is a tendency within economic geography to ‘go local’. Though there is much to be gleaned from local, firm-based research, the fact that the local is situated within other s…
Income inequality across Canadian provinces in an era of globalization
In this article, I use panel data methods to investigate possible factors influencing recent trends in income inequality across Canadian provinces. The ratio of the income share of the highest‐to‐lowest quintiles and the Gini coefficient of total income are used as measures of inequality. Both point to rising levels of inequality from 1981 to 1999, especially during the 1990s, and the estimation results suggest that several factors have had signi…
Impacts of Trade on Wage Inequality in Los Angeles
Over the last thirty years wage inequality has accelerated markedly in the United States, reversing the trend of the previous half-century. The growth in inequality parallels the rapid rise in U.S. imports, particularly from developing economies. Standard trade theory suggests that the wages of unskilled workers relative to skilled workers will decline in developed economies as a result of greater competition from developing economies that have a…
Participation in Export Markets and Productivity of Plants in Los Angeles, 1987-1997
This article investigates the relationship between the productivity of plants and participation in export markets in the greater Los Angeles area using unpublished plant-level data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Longitudinal Research Database. Two key questions are examined: (1) do plants that export learn in foreign markets and become more efficient, or (2) do more efficient plants self-select into export markets? The results support previous cla…
International trade and wage inequality in Canada
Journal Article International trade and wage inequality in Canada Get access Sébastien Breau, Sébastien Breau **Department of Geography, McGill University, 805 Sherbrooke Street West, Montréal, Québec, H3A 2K6, Canada. email Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David L. Rigby David L. Rigby †Department of Geography, UCLA, 1255 Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, California, 90095, USA. email Search for other works by thi…
Exports and Local Labor Markets in the Greater Los Angeles Region
Using U.S. Census Bureau microdata and IMPLAN regional estimates to construct a unique employer-employee dataset, this study explores the impact of exports across labor markets in the Greater Los Angeles region during the 1990s. The analysis reveals significant variation in the intrametropolitan distribution of export-related activities, with Long Beach, El Segundo, Hawthorne, and Irvine recording the highest export intensities in the region. The…
Low-Income-Country Import Competition and the Structure of Earnings Inequality in Canada, 1996-2001
This paper uses a detailed employer-employee dataset to test the effects of low-income-country import competition on the earnings of workers in manufacturing industries in Canada. From 1996 to 2001 earnings inequality increased: the wage gap between manufacturing workers with a university degree and those without a high school diploma rose from 35% to 43%. Greater import competition is found to explain part of the growing wage gap, consistent wit…
Conflict and human African trypanosomiasis
Growing Unequal? Changes in the Distribution of Earnings across Canadian Cities
This paper investigates changes in the distribution of earnings across 87 metropolitan areas in Canada. It does so using micro data taken from the 20 per cent long-form sample of the census for the years 1996, 2001 and 2006. Results point to overall increases in urban inequality and to greater heterogeneity in inequality across the urban hierarchy, with larger cities growing particularly unequal over time. Cross-sectional and panel regression mod…
Commentary
(no abstract available)
Nouvelles perspectives en développement régional
Nouvelles perspectives en développement régional
The Occupy Movement and the Top 1% in Canada
The Occupy movement catalyzed public debate on the issue of growing income inequality. This paper examines recent patterns of inequality in Canada, paying particular attention to changes in the characteristics of the top 1% of income earners. At the national level, the gap between the top percentile and the other 99% has widened considerably: in 2006, 11% of the nation's income was concentrated in the hands of top earners (whose mean income of $3…
On the Relationship between Innovation and Wage Inequality
In this article, we examine the link between innovation and earnings inequality acrossCanadian cities over the 1996-2006 period. We do so using a novel data set that combines information from theCanadian long-form census and theUnitedStatesPatent andTrademarkOffice. The analysis reveals that there is a positive relationship between innovation and inequality: cities with higher levels of innovation have more unequal distributions of earnings. Othe…
A Spatial Analysis of Precarious Forms of Employment in F rance
This paper provides the first detailed analysis of the spatial dimensions of precarious employment across the F rench territory. We find that different forms of precarious employment exhibit different spatial patterns. The most striking locational pattern is shown by fixed‐term contracts and part‐time work where we observe clusters of high levels of precarious employment primarily in southern regions. Northern regions, in contrast, are characteri…
Regional income disparities in Canada
The existing literature on convergence in Canada largely ignores the underlying geographical dimensions of regional disparities. By using income measures developed from census micro-data files to analyze patterns of convergence across census divisions, we show that regional disparities are increasingly clustered across the Canadian space-economy along (1) East–West and (2) urban–rural gradients. Rural census divisions in the Eastern provinces, in…
Locating geographies of inequality
This paper examines journal publications and article citations on the subject of the spatial dimensions of income inequality within the social sciences. A systematic literature review methodology is used to develop a dataset containing 2944 articles published between 1980 and 2014. Analysis reveals that the number of papers soared in the late 1990s with significant differences (1) between papers focusing on the causes versus consequences of inequ…
In the Footsteps of Mackintosh and Innis
In this article, we track the historical movement in Canada’s economic centre of gravity (ECG) since the early 20th century. A simple weighted mean centre approach is applied to a novel data set containing long-run estimates of household income at the provincial level. The analysis reveals that from 1926 to 2013, Canada’s ECG shifted westward by a net distance of 204 kilometres. Concomitant with this broad geographical shift, we identify six dist…
Is it time to start worrying more about growing regional inequalities in Canada
Much has been written recently about the rise of within‐country inequality and growing imbalances of regional fortunes in the United States and the European Union. In this paper, we apply a novel geo‐visualization technique that combines local indicators of spatial association with directional statistics to a unique dataset in order to explore the spatial dimensions of regional income inequalities in Canada from 1981 to 2016. After describing a p…
Exploring the Causes and Consequences of Regional Income Inequality in Canada
The recent surge in populist movements sweeping many countries has brought into focus the issue of regional inequality. In this article, we develop a panel data set for Canada that includes information on 284 regions observed at 5-year intervals (from 1981 to 2011) and estimate a series of spatial econometric models to study the causes and consequences of regional inequality. Our results draw attention to the fact that the rise in inequality at t…
The Academic Job Market in U.S. Geography and the Business Cycle
The Great Recession of 2007–2009 had profound effects on all sectors of the U.S. economy. In this article we assess the relationship between the academic job market in U.S. geography and the business cycle. Specifically, we examine the responsiveness of the job market to the business cycle since the early 1970s, the impacts of the Great Recession on hiring, and how hiring networks changed with the recession. For our analyses we draw on data from …
The evolution of the Kuznets curve in Canada
Challenging transitions? Assessing the occupational mobility patterns of US immigrants by gender
This article uses the New Immigrant Survey to assess the occupational mobility of US immigrants. Estimates from OLS and Heckman selection models show the occupational mobility of immigrants follows a U‐shaped pattern: immigrants arriving in the United States see their occupational status decline before it gradually improves. However, even 9 years after coming to the United States, the occupational status of immigrants remains lower than prior to …
Energy poverty
Exposure to energy poverty is associated with significantly increased likelihood of poor general and mental health. Given the high proportion of Canadian households facing energy poverty, with demonstrated implications for population health, tackling energy poverty is essential for an equitable energy transition and for climate resilience
Inclusive growth, public transit infrastructure investments and neighbourhood trajectories of inequality in Montreal
Investing in accessible, affordable and sustainable modes of transportation is increasingly seen as an important policy tool for fostering the development of more inclusive cities and combating the rise in inequality. In this article, we review how the concept of inclusive growth has gained traction at the local level framed within a discourse of building more equitable and sustainable cities with a particular emphasis on transportation infrastru…
Economics (19 obras) · Geography (15 obras) · Inequality (13 obras) · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis (12 obras) · Demographic economics (11 obras) · Sociology (10 obras) · Economic geography (9 obras) · Economic inequality (9 obras) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (9 obras) · Political science (8 obras)