La presente etude s?appuie sur des donnees provenant de la base de donnees du Programme d?analyse longitudinale de l?emploi de Statistique Canada pour examiner la distribution des taux de croissance de l?emploi au Canada de 2000 a 2009, en se concentrant surtout sur les entreprises situees dans...

This paper uses data from Statistics Canada's Longitudinal Employment Analysis Program database to study the distribution of annual employment growth rates in Canada over the 2000-to-2009 period, with a special emphasis on firms in the tails of the distribution, referred to here as High-Growth...

Le present document porte sur les variations annuelles de l'emploi dans le secteur canadien des entreprises de 2001 a 2009. Cette periode comprend une periode d'expansion (2001 a 2008), suivie d'une recession (2008-2009). Les donnees au niveau de l'entreprise sont utilisees pour decomposer la...

Le present document vise a determiner si les entreprises canadiennes de differentes tailles (exprimees par l'emploi) affichent des taux de croissance differents d'annee en annee. Les donnees sont tirees du Programme d'analyse longitudinale de l'emploi de Statistique Canada et couvrent la periode...

This paper examines whether Canadian firms of different sizes (in terms of employment) grow at different rates year-on-year. The data are from Statistics Canada's Longitudinal Employment Analysis Program and cover the 1999-to-2008 period. The methodology is similar to that used by Haltiwanger,...

Between 1993 and 1996 there was a large number of business establishment starts in smaller and larger communities in Canada, indicating significant business establishment development in the post recessionary period of the 1990s. Between 1993 and 1996 smaller communities had a larger ratio of...

Employment in agriculture has changed drastically over the last fifty years. While the share of self-employed farmers has remained relatively stable over that period, the contribution of paid workers and of unpaid family workers to agricultural employment has reversed. Fifty years ago, unpaid...