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emphasis, as the use of these technologies has been shown to be closely associated with changes in relative productivity …
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. Second, export-market participation was associated with increases in a plant's productivity growth. Third, our analysis … identified the presence of three main mechanisms through which export-market participation raises productivity growth among …
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market share from one group to another is associated with productivity gain as the less productive lose share and the more … productive gain market share. This paper examines the extent to which productivity has been enhanced by firm turnover over the … slowdown in productivity growth that was experienced by the manufacturing sector …
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This study uses new GDP estimates for the unincorporated sector in order to examine labour productivity in the …
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aggregate productivity growth. This paper extends our understanding of industry differences in the competitive process by … examining firm turnover and productivity growth in various services industries in Canada and situating them relative to … entrants are relatively large at birth, the penalty for entry at suboptimal size or productivity is higher. The reallocation …
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productivity between Canada and the United States. To do so, the business sector in each country is divided into unincorporated and … corporate businesses, and estimates of labour productivity are generated for each sector.The productivity performance of the … two countries are compared, the gap in the level of productivity between Canada and the United States is reduced …
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Many historical comparisons of international productivity use measures of labour productivity (output per worker …). Differences in labour productivity can be caused by differences in technical efficiency or differences in capital intensity …. Moving to measures of total factor productivity allows international comparisons to ascertain whether differences in labour …
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This paper has three main objectives. First, it examines the level of multifactor productivity (MFP) in Canada relative … capital intensity and MFP in accounting for the labour productivity differences between the two countries. Third, it traces … considerably more engineering construction. Second, most of the differences in labour productivity between Canada and the United …
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This paper was prepared for the National Statistics Council, which advises the chief statistician of Canada on the full range of Statistics Canada's activities, particularly on overall program priorities
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The Canadian Productivity Accounts (CPA) of Statistics Canada maintain two multifactor productivity (MFP) programs. The … Major Sector Multifactor Productivity Program develops the indexes of MFP for the total business sector and major industry … groups in the business sector. The Industry Multifactor Productivity Program or the Industry KLEMS Productivity Program …
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