superior performance of foreign-controlled plants and their productivity spillovers to domestic plants. The paper finds that … productivity growth in the last two decades. Finally, we find robust evidence for productivity spillovers from foreign …

This paper examines the determinants of innovation and the role of innovation in productivity growth, shifts in market … plant performance both before and after the introduction of an innovation. We find strong evidence that labour productivity … to gain in market shares through its effect on productivity growth. In contrast, product innovation appears to have …

/exit and plant-level productivity. It uses the experience of Canadian manufacturing plants over three separate periods that … of entry and exit responses as well as the productivity outcomes differ markedly in the three periods. Consistent with … improve their productivity performance relative to the population from which they originated and plants that stay in export …

exchange rate. We find that relative factor input costs and relative productivity growth are the two most important factors … extent to which relative productivity differences are passed through to cross-country relative prices in the manufacturing …

This study uses new GDP estimates for the unincorporated sector in order to examine labour productivity in the …

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 …

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 …