Economic Inequalities in Saguenay Society, 1879-1949: A Descriptive Analysis

Bouchard, Gérard

doi:10.3138/chr.79.4.660

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“…For the United States: Burchell 1987;Bolton 1982;Soltow 1979Soltow , 1975Atack and Bateman 1981;Newell 1980Newell , 1986Herscovici 1993;Pope 1989;and Gregson 1996. A notable exception to these results are those by Gerard Bouchard (1998) for the Saguenay region of Quebec. Bouchard finds that the Saguenay was far more egalitarian than the provinces of Ontario and Nova Scotia, which in turn were more egalitarian than the United States.…”

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Patterns and Determinants of Wealth Inequality in Late-Nineteenth-Century Ontario

Matteo¹

2001

Social Science History

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This article shows that late-nineteenth-century wealth inequality was associated with rising wealth levels supporting the existence of a Kuznets-type curve, but this curve is not unconditional.The tendency of wealth inequality to vary with age means that wealth inequality was also a function of the changing age composition of the population and may have been the result of portfolio allocation decisions across the life cycle. Canada's population “aged” during the late nineteenth century, with the proportion of population under age 20 dropping from 53% in 1871 to 43% by 1911. The general aging of the population could have increased inequality in both wealth and income. These results follow recent work by Jeffrey Williamson (1998), who argues that Kuznets curves are not unconditional. In other words, as the results of this article confirm, wealth inequality is the outcome of a complex economic process, not a single determinant cause.

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Patterns and Determinants of Wealth Inequality in Late-Nineteenth-Century Ontario

Matteo¹

2001

Social Science History

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“…10. For Canada: Siddiq (1988), Osberg andSiddiq (1988, 1992), Darroch (1983), Siddiq and Gwyn (1991), Di Matteo and George (1992), Gwyn and Siddiq (1992), Darroch and Soltow (1994), Bouchard (1998), Baskerville (1999). For the United States: Main (1975Main ( , 1977, Jones (1980Jones ( , 1984, Burchell (1987), Bolton (1982), Soltow (1975Soltow ( , 1979, Atack and Bateman (1981), Newell (1980Newell ( , 1986, Herscovici (1993), Pope (1980), Galenson and Pope (1989), Gregson (1996), Ferrie (1994), Steckel (1990), Steckel and Moehling (2001), Stewart (2006Stewart ( , 2009, Clay and Jones (2008), Walker (2000), and Canaday (2008).…”

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Does Egalitarianism Come at a Price? Inequality and Economic Performance in Late-Nineteenth-Century Ontario

Matteo¹

2017

Soc. sci. hist.

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The relationship between economic performance and wealth inequality at a regional level is examined using county-level wealth for Ontario in 1892 and 1902. The results find that after controlling for confounding factors, declining wealth inequality was generally accompanied by slower economic performance as measured by changes in wealth levels and manufacturing output over time. This suggests that a more egalitarian wealth distribution came perhaps at the price of less robust economic performance.

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“…Recent work by Gérard Bouchard on the Saguenay region in Quebec and by Gordon Darroch on central Ontario in the mid-nineteenth century are two important exceptions. 46 Both are sensitive to inequalities in property ownership in rural areas. It is, nonetheless, easy to understand why historians have overlooked the importance of class in rural Canada, especially as a factor in understanding home ownership.…”

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Home Ownership and Spacious Homes: Equity under Stress in Early-Twentieth-Century Canada

Baskerville¹

2001

Journal of Family History

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This article attempts to contribute to a burgeoning literature on Canadian housing history. It approaches the nature of housing by linking two measurements often examined in isolation: ownership and interior space. Using data from the Canadian Families Project’s 5 percent random sample of the nominal census returns for Canada in 1901, this article presents the first national analysis comparing housing ownership and housing space in both rural and urban Canada. It attempts to determine, via a series of logistic regressions, the relative importance of several social and economic variables on a family’s chances of owning a home and of living in a crowded or relatively spacious environment. The article demonstrates that the social and economic influences on the chances of ownership differed in some significant ways from the influences on the chances of living in a spacious home.

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Economic Inequalities in Saguenay Society, 1879-1949: A Descriptive Analysis

Cited by 6 publications

References 46 publications

Patterns and Determinants of Wealth Inequality in Late-Nineteenth-Century Ontario

Patterns and Determinants of Wealth Inequality in Late-Nineteenth-Century Ontario

Does Egalitarianism Come at a Price? Inequality and Economic Performance in Late-Nineteenth-Century Ontario

Home Ownership and Spacious Homes: Equity under Stress in Early-Twentieth-Century Canada

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