Professeur
Research interest
Rose Olfert is a Professor in the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy (.65) and in the Department of Bioresource, Policy, Business and Economics in the College or Agriculture and Bioresources, both at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon.
Rose's research and teaching interests are in regional economics, rural development and the role of public policy. Although most of her rural development work focuses on North America she is also working with international collaborators in Chile, Peru and the Netherlands. Her research and publications focus on the spatial location and re-location of economic activity, including the determinants and impacts. She has published on off-farm employment, occupational segregation, urbanization trends and rural community evolution, cities as engines of growth, location choices of professionals, State Trading Enterprise impacts on International trade, co-ops and credit unions, the changing role of distance, migration patterns, equalization payments and commuting patterns and their determinants. Current research is focused on the distinction between people-based and place-based public policy and the conditions under which place-based policy may be appropriate.