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Job Creation by Company Size Class: Concentration and Persistence of Job Gains and Losses in Canadian Companies

Picot, Garnett; Dupuy, Richard - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1997

The statistical observation that small firms have created the majority of new jobs during the 1980s has had a tremendous influence on public policy. Governmentshave looked to the small firm sector for employment growth, and have promoted policies to augment this expansion. However, recent...

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Technology-induced Wage Premia in Canadian Manufacturing Plants During the 1980s

Johnson, Joanne; Baldwin, John R.; Gray, Tara - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1996

and activities of small and medium-sized firms in both manufacturing and services industries,Baldwin and Johnson (1995 …

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The Effect of Technology and Trade on Wage Differentials Between Nonproduction and Production Workers in Canadian Manufacturing

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

The 1980s and 1990s have seen a rising share of skilled labour in total employment in the manufacturing sector of Canada. At the same time, the wage premium for skilled workers has increased, thereby increasing the inequality between skilled and unskilled workers. There is a disagreement about...

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A Tale of Three Cities: The Dynamics of Manufacturing in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver, 1976-1997

Vinodrai, Tara - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2001

market. Montreal has experienced declines across most of the manufacturing industries. A heavy concentration of employment in … labour intensive industries such as textiles and clothing, which have experienced severe declines across Canada, has … amplified the level of decline in Montreal. However, Montreal has seen some growth in science-based industries. While Vancouver …

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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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Were Small Producers the Engines of Growth in the Canadian Manufacturing Sector in the 1980s?

Baldwin, John R. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1996

Small firms are often seen to be the engines of growth. There are two main sources of empirical evidence that are adduced to support this conclusion. The first is that job creation has been coming mainly from small firms. The second is that the share of employment accounted for by small firms...

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Dynamics of the Canadian Manufacturing Sector in Metropolitan and Rural Regions

Brown, W. Mark; Vinodrai, Tara; Baldwin, John R. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2001

locational patterns across industries. Change across the rural/urban hierarchy is also measured in terms of wage and … after controlling for the types of manufacturing industries found in rural and urban regions is it apparent that wages and … diversifying across a wider variety of manufacturing industries and that shifts in employment shares across industries - a measure …

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Employment Generation by Small Producers in the Canadian Manufacturing Sector

Picot, Garnett; Baldwin, John R. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1994

This paper uses job turnover data to compare how job creation, job destruction and net job change differ for small and large establishments in the Canadian manufacturing sector. It uses several different techniques to correct for the regression-to-the-mean problem that, it has been suggested,...

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Differences in Interprovincial Productivity Levels

Zietsma, Danielle; Sabourin, David; Baldwin, John R.; … - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2001

This study examines provincial differences in productivity (GDP per job) using decomposition and regression analysis. In the first stage of the study, the relative size of productivity differences across provinces is examined. Then, these differences are decomposed into two components - the...

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Tariff Reduction and Employment in Canadian Manufacturing, 1988-1994

Larochelle-Cote, Sebastien - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2005

This paper uses firm-level data from the T2/LEAP to investigate whether the link between tariff changes and employment differed across firms with various productivity and leverage characteristics over the period 1988 to 1994. The results suggest that the combined effect of domestic and U.S....

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