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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank two anonymous referees for their helpful comments on earlier versions of this paper. The paper also benefited from the comments of participants at the 2007 Statistics Canada Socio-Economic Conference, the 2007 Canadian Regional Science Meetings, the 2007 North American Regional Science Meetings and the 2008 Western Regional Science Meetings. This research has been supported financially through Statistic Canada’s Venture Capital program.

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