On examine dans cette etude les differents types de deflateurs qui sont utilises pour comparer les estimations des volumes de revenue et de la production nationale de divers pays. On y met de l'avant la these selon laquelle ces deflateurs doivent etre adaptes au concept specifique de revenu a...

This paper examines the different types of deflators that are used to compare volume estimates of national income and production across countries. It argues that these deflators need to be tailored to the specific income concept used for study. If the potential to spend concept is employed, a...

Le present article porte sur les defis qu'a du relever le secteur de la fabrication au cours du dernier demi-siecle, en examinant a la fois les resultats de long terme et ceux de court terme. Pour commencer, nous cherchons a savoir s'il existe des preuves que la fabrication a connu un declin de...

This paper examines the challenges that the manufacturing sector has faced over the last half century focusing on both long- and short-term performance. It first examines whether there is evidence that this sector is in long-term decline. The paper also investigates how the industry has...

Le present document etudie la croissance de l'economie des ressources au Canada et la contribution des gains d'echange qui decoulent de la hausse des termes de l'echange a la croissance du revenu reel de 1870 a 2010. Il comprend un historique de la croissance d'une succession de ressources...

This paper studies the growth of the Canadian resource economy and the contribution of trading gains arising from increasing terms of trade to real income growth from 1870 to 2010. It combines a historical account of the growth of a succession of natural resources--examining both the production...

Afin d'evaluer l'importance de la delocalisation des matieres (definie dans le present document comme etant l'utilisation de matieres intermediaires importees) au niveau de l'industrie, on suppose generalement que, pour une industrie particuliere, la part importee des entrees de chaque bien est...

In order to study the importance of material offshoring (defined in this paper as the use of intermediate imported materials) at the industry level, it is generally assumed that the import share of each input commodity for a particular industry is similar to that for the economy as a...

This paper explores the linkages between export-market participation and productivity performance in Canadian manufacturing plants, between foreign-controlled and domestic-controlled plants, and between young and older plants.

Over the past three decades, tariff barriers have fallen significantly, leading to an increasing integration of Canadian manufactures into world markets and especially the U.S. market. Much attention has been paid to the effects of this shift at the national scale, while little attention has...