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the metric used to evaluate relative performance by moving from employment to output and labor productivity. The paper … share. Small firms have been falling behind large firms both with respect to wages paid and labor productivity. Large … strides in increasing their relative labor productivity …
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This paper examines firm turnover and productivity growth in the Canadian retail trade sector. Firm turnover occurs as … productivity growth comes from firm turnover and the re-allocation of resources from the less to the more productive, all of the … aggregate productivity growth comes from this source in the retail sector. This suggests that the much-discussed Wal-Mart effect …
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make to productivity growth. Fifth, it discusses new research that focuses on the relationship between foreign ownership …
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This paper studies the impact that a small country joining a regional trade agreement, but particularly a small country, might be expected to gain from the exploitation of scale economies. It makes use of the experience of Canada when it entered into the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement...
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This paper examines the maturation process of firms that enter an industry by constructing new plants and investigates the extent to which improvements in the performance of an entry cohort are the result of a selection process that culls out the most inefficient entrants or of a learning...
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The statistical observation that small firms have created the majority of new jobs during the 1980s has had a tremendous influence on public policy. Governments have looked to the small firm sector for employment growth and have promoted policies to augment this expansion. However, recent...
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This paper investigates the dynamics of job reallocation in the manufacturing sector of Canada. It does so by examining the pattern and magnitude of job gain, job loss, and total job turnover due to growth and decline of some firms, and entry and exit of other firms. It also investigates how the...
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