plant's placement within the productivity distribution. Appreciations of the local currency expose domestic plants to more … plants are forced from the market, which truncates the lower end of the productivity distribution. For surviving plants …, appreciations can lead to a reduction in plant size, which, in the presence of scale economies, can lower productivity. We examine …

Labour productivity growth in the Canadian business sector slowed substantially after 2000. Most of the slowdown … and a slowdown in export growth. The paper finds that at least half of the slowdown in aggregate productivity growth is … because of the pro-cyclical nature of productivity growth arising from capacity utilization. Almost all of the aggregate …

changes in the level of foreign control upon labour productivity in domestically-controlled plants. We distinguish between … use of intermediate inputs. We find that foreign control increases productivity growth in domestically-controlled plants … positive productivity effects of foreign control are more pronounced for those plants that outsource more intermediates, and …

relative productivity growth are the two most important factors influencing changes in relative Canada/US prices. Competitive … pressures emanating from trade are important determinants of the extent to which relative productivity differences are passed …

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 paper compares long-run growth in labour productivity in Canada and the United States from 1961 to 2006. Over the … entire period labour productivity in both countries grew at about the same rate. But Canadian growth exceeded that of the … United States up to the early 1980s. Since then, U.S. labour productivity growth has exceeded Canadian growth. The gap has …