Socioeconomic Cogentrification. The Colocalization of Labour and Business Services Jobs in Montreal, 1996-2001
Many studies are currently investigating the localization of business services jobs and its development. One hypothesis, which has been insufficiently researched to date, is that this sector tends to locate in the vicinity of residential neighbourhoods where its workforce lives. This study demonstrates that though colocalization does exist to some extent, it mainly affects workers living close to the downtown area. It has been discovered that new business services jobs tend to locate in close proximity to areas already inhabited by employees in the business services sector. We can therefore hypothesize that cogentrification is primarily residential. A number of professional workers have returned to live in Montreal’s pericentral neighbourhoods over the past twenty years. Cogentrification is also economic, insofar as business services office jobs have gravitated toward these same areas during the same period.