discussion and analysis of recent changes in industrial composition at the national level, notably, the decline in manufacturing …

in labour productivity. It compares Canadian and American experiences in this area from 1987 to 1998. …

of geographical externalities. The empirical analysis focuses on Canadian manufacturing establishments operating over the …

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 capacity, the dramatic increase in the Canada-U.S. exchange rate …

share and survival in the Canadian manufacturing sector. It presents a model that examines the effect of innovation on plant …

Canadian manufacturing sector as a whole and for five broad industry groups, each characterized by the nature of their output …. Results provide strong support for Marshall's (1920) claims about the importance of buyer-supplier networks, labour market …

existing firms that expanded. There is considerably more firm turnover in the retail sector than in the manufacturing sector … and more of it comes from entry and exit. Moreover, contrary to the manufacturing sector where only part of overall … exitors and declining incumbents to entrants and growing incumbents. Foreign-controlled firms contributed 30% of labour …

This paper examines the level of labour productivity in Canada relative to that of the United States in 1999. In doing … so, it addresses two main issues. The first is the comparability of the measures of GDP and labour inputs that the …'s relative labour productivity of the total economy of around 93% that of the United States. The paper points out that at least a …