This paper looks at annual changes in Canadian business sector employment from 2001 to 2009. This period encompasses an … expansionary phase (2001 to 2008), followed by a recession (2008/2009). Firm-level data are used to decompose yearly net employment … change into gross employment creation and destruction, which makes it possible to measure the size of total annual employment …

employment creation and gross employment destruction at the firm level. It is based on research carried out by Statistics Canada …This article in the Economic Insights series decomposes business-sector annual net employment growth into gross … on the topic of business dynamics.The net employment created or destroyed in the business sector in a given year provides …

We examine effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on employment losses across metropolitan area status and population size …. Non-metropolitan and metropolitan areas of all sizes experienced significant employment losses, but the impacts are much … larger in large metropolitan areas. Employment losses manifest as increased unemployment, labor force withdrawal, and …

employment distribution over firm size categories between Canada and the United States can account for the Canada-U.S. labour … this relationship, the difference in the employment distribution over firm sizes between Canada and the United States can … distribution of employment over firm size categories has affected Canadian aggregate productivity, and whether differences in the …

tremendous influence on public policy. Governments have looked to the small firm sector for employment growth and have promoted …, for both the entire Canadian economy and the manufacturing sector, the growth rate of net and gross employment decreases … approaches used. Part one of the paper also produces results for various industrial sectors and examines employment growth in …