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Ce document se penche sur le processus maturationnel des entreprises qui font leur entree dans une branche d'activite economique en construisant de nouvellesusines et examine dans quelle mesure l'amelioration de la performance de la cohorte des entrants est le resultat d'une selection qui...
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Les annees 1980 et 1990 ont vu progresser la part de la main-d'oeuvre qualifiee dans l'emploi total du secteur manufacturier canadien. Durant la meme periode, les salaires des travailleurs qualifies ont augmente, de sorte que l'inegalite entre travailleurs qualifies et non qualifies s'est...
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Dans le present, sont examines les facteurs determinants des retards en matiere d'adoption des technologies de pointe dans le secteur des entreprises. On y utilise des donnees portant sur les retards d'adoption au niveau des entreprises (c'est-a-dire la periode de temps ecoulee entre le moment...
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The 1980s and 1990s have seen a rising share of skilled labour in total employment in the manufacturing sector of Canada. At the same time, the wage premium for skilled workers has increased, thereby increasing the inequality between skilled and unskilled workers. There is a disagreement about...
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This paper investigates structural change at the national and the regional level in five broadly defined sectors of the Canadian economy -- the natural-resource-based, the labour-intensive, the scale-based, the product-differentiated, and the science-based sectors. Three aspects of change are...
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This paper examines the determinants of the adoption lag for advanced technologies in the Canadian manufacturing sector. It uses plant-level data collected on the length of the adoption lag (the time between a firm's first becoming aware of a new technology and its adoption of the technology) to...
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Le present document examine le changement structurel qui s'est produit a l'echelle nationale et regionale dans cinq grands groupes industriels de l'economie canadienne : les industries a forte intensite de ressources, les industries a forte intensite de main-d'oeuvre, les industries a fortes...
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On etudie dans ce document la dynamique de la reaffectation des emplois dans le secteur canadien de la fabrication. Pour cela, on examine le regime et l'ampleur des creations d'emplois, des pertes d'emplois et du renouvellement de l'emploi en raison de la croissance et du declin de quelques...
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This paper examines the maturation process of firms that enter an industry by constructing new plant 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 process...
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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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