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Markups in Canada: Have They Changed and Why?

Leung, Danny - Bank of Canada - 2008

effects of increasing import competition and lower inflation on the markup. This paper offers evidence on the evolution of the …

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Stability versus Flexibility: The Role of Temporary Employment in Labour Adjustment

Cao, Shutao; Leung, Danny - Bank of Canada - 2010

In Canada, temporary workers account for 14 per cent of jobs in the non-farm business sector, are present in a range of industries, and account for 40 per cent of the total job reallocation. Yet most models of job reallocation abstract from temporary workers. This paper evaluates the importance...

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Human Capital Risk and the Firmsize Wage Premium

Leung, Danny; Ueberfeldt, Alexander - Bank of Canada - 2008

Why do employed persons in large firms earn more than employed persons in small firms, even after controlling for observable characteristics? Complementary to previous results, this paper proposes a mechanism that gives an answer to this question. In the model, individuals accumulate human...

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What Affects MFP in the Long-Run? Evidence from Canadian Industries

Leung, Danny; Zheng, Yi - Bank of Canada - 2008

In this paper we explore variables that may have an impact on multifactor productivity (MFP) in the long-run using the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005808323

Labour Reallocation, Relative Prices and Productivity

Cao, Shutao; Leung, Danny - Bank of Canada - 2010

most recent data available. It examines the determinants of these flows and their relationship with the productivity growth …, shifts of employment labour between industries have generally not contributed positively to aggregate labour productivity … rates within industries are found to be strongly related to multifactor productivity and labour productivity growth at the …

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Firm Size and Productivity

Leung, Danny; Meh, Césaire; Terajima, Yaz - Bank of Canada - 2008

This paper examines the relationship between firm size and productivity. In contrast to previous studies, this paper …, the aggregate importance of the firm size-productivity relationship is gauged by calculating to what extent shifts in the … distribution of employment over firm size categories has affected Canadian aggregate productivity, and whether differences in the …

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The Effect of Adjustment Costs and Organizational Change on Productivity in Canada: Evidence from Aggregate Data

Leung, Danny - Bank of Canada - 2004

A basic neoclassical model of production is often used to assess the contribution of investment to output growth. In the model, investment raises the capital stock and output growth increases in proportion to the growth in capital. It has been argued, however, that computers, as a "general...

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Do Exchange Rates Affect the Capital-Labour Ratio? Panel Evidence from Canadian Manufacturing Industries

Leung, Danny; Yuen, Terence - Bank of Canada - 2005

productivity is small. …

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