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Nouvelles pratiques de travail et taux de demissions : problemes methodologiques et donnees empiriques pour le Canada

Rosa, Julio; Morissette, Rene - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2003

A l'aide d'un echantillon national representatif d'etablissements, nous avons cherche a determiner si l'adoption de certaines pratiques de travail equivalentes (PTE) a tendance a reduire le taux de demissions. Dans l'ensemble, notre analyse fournit des preuves solides d'une association negative...

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Alternative Work Practices and Quit Rates: Methodological Issues and Empirical Evidence for Canada

Rosa, Julio; Morissette, Rene - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2003

Using a nationally representative sample of establishments, we have examined whether selected alternative work practices (AWPs) tend to reduce quit rates. Overall, our analysis provides strong evidence of a negative association between these AWPs and quit rates among establishments of more than...

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Effet de l'evolution de l'utilisation des technologies sur le rendement des etablissements dans le secteur de la fabrication au Canada

Sabourin, David; Baldwin, John R. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2004

Cet article porte sur le lien entre l'evolution de l'utilisation des technologies par les differents etablissements du secteur de la fabrication au Canada et deux mesures du rendement, soit la croissance de la productivite et la croissance de la part de marche.

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Firms, Industries, and Unemployment Insurance: An Analysis Using Employer-employee Data from Canada

Chen, Wen-Hao; Corak, Miles - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2005

The exploration of newly available administrative data in a number of countries has led to a growing realization that a careful study of the interaction between employer and employee characteristics is needed to fully understand labour market outcomes. The objective of this paper is to develop...

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Computers, Fax Machines and Wages in Canada: What Really Matters?

Drolet, Marie; Morissette, Rene - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1998

Controlling for observable worker attributes, we find that computer use is associated with a wage premium of at most 14%. Following Dinardo and Pischke (1997), we examine the wage premium associated with other tools used on the job. While these authors find a significant wage premium for the use...

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Innovation and Connectivity: The Nature of Market Linkages and Innovation Networks in Canadian Manufacturing Industries

Peters, Alice; Baldwin, John R. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2001

This paper investigates the extent to which customers/suppliers innovation networks are related to the size and pattern … patterns to the importance of customer and supplier innovation networks. Input/output matrices are used to measure the extent … derived from data coming from the 1993 Survey of Innovation and Advanced Technology. The study finds that the importance of …

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Innovative Activity in Canadian Food Processing Establishments: the Importance of Engineering Practices

Sabourin, David; Baldwin, John R. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1999

competition-the so-called Schumpeterian hypothesis. Third, the effect of the nationality of a firm on innovation is investigated … innovations. Establishments in the 'other' food products industry tend to lead when it comes to innovation, whereas fish product …

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Learning from Failure: Organizational Mortality and the Resource-based View

Thornhill, Stewart; Amit, Raphael - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2003

This paper examines the factors underlying firm failure, and compares the failure mechanisms for young firms against those of older organizations. This paper suggests that there are systematic differences between the determinants of firm failure for firms that fail early in life and those that...

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The Determinants of the Adoption Lag for Advanced Manufacturing Technologies

Baldwin, John R.; Raffiquzzaman, Mohammed - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1998

from the 1993 Survey of Innovation and Advanced Technology concerning firms' own evaluations of the benefits and costs of …

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Skill Shortages and Advanced Technology Adoption

Sabourin, David - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2001

This paper investigates the extent to which establishments in the Canadian manufacturing sector experience occupational skill shortages, and to the extent that they do, whether these shortages appear to act as impediments to advanced technology adoption. Plants adopting advanced technology...

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