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Export Growth, Capacity Utilization and Productivity Growth : Evidence from Canadian Manufacturing Plants

Baldwin, John R.; Gu, Wulong; Yan, Beiling - 2012

Labour productivity growth in the Canadian business sector slowed substantially after 2000. Most of the slowdown occurred in the manufacturing sector. This paper examines how this slowdown was associated with the restructuring that occurred in manufacturing as a result of the increase in excess...

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The Effect of Changing Technology Use on Plant Performance in the Canadian Manufacturing Sector

Baldwin, John R.; Sabourin, David - 2009

, probably through its impact on product innovation. The market rewards those businesses that managed to improve their efficiency …

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Industrial Competition, Shifts in Market Share and Productivity Growth

Baldwin, John R.; Gu, Wulong - 2009

This paper investigates the extent to which productivity growth is the result of turnover - the process that shifts output from one firm to another as a result of the competitive process. Turnover occurs because some firms gain market share and others lose it. Some turnover is due to entry and...

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Catching Up and Falling Behind : The Performance of Provincial GDP Per Capita from 1990 to 2003

Baldwin, John R.; Brown, W. Mark; Maynard, Jean-Pierre; … - 2009

This paper compares GDP per capita across Canadian provinces over the period from 1990 to 2003. It starts by examining relative GDP per capita measured in current dollars across provinces and over time. The second section breaks down growth in nominal dollar GDP into a price and a volume...

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Innovation, Survival and Performance of Canadian Manufacturing Plants

Baldwin, John R.; Gu, Wulong - 2009

This paper examines the determinants of innovation and the role of innovation in productivity growth, shifts in market … share and survival in the Canadian manufacturing sector. The paper presents a model that examines the effect of innovation … plant performance both before and after the introduction of an innovation. We find strong evidence that labour productivity …

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