La croissance de la productivite du travail dans le secteur des entreprises au Canada a connu un ralentissement substantiel apres 2000. La majeure partie du ralentissement a eu lieu dans le secteur de la fabrication. Le present document vise a examiner comment ce ralentissement a ete lie a la...

Labour productivity growth in the Canadian business sector slowed substantially after 2000. Most of the slowdown occurred in the manufacturing sector. This paper examines how this slowdown was associated with the restructuring that occurred in manufacturing as a result of the increase in excess...

Les etablissements exportateurs et ceux sous controle etranger payent-ils mieux leurs travailleurs que les etablissements non exportateurs et ceux sous controle canadien? La presente etude s'appuie sur un ensemble de donnees sur les employeurs et les employes pour determiner s'il y a un avantage...

Do exporters and foreign-controlled establishments pay their workers higher wages than non-exporters and domestic-controlled establishments? This paper draws on an employer-employee dataset to explore the existence of exporter and foreign-controlled wage premiums in the Canadian manufacturing...

Using data from the Provincial KLEMS database, this paper asks whether provincial economies have undergone structural change in their business sectors since 2000. It does so by applying a measure of industrial change (the dissimilarity index) using measures of output (real GDP) and hours worked....

The paper examines whether the integration of Canadian manufacturing firms into a global value chain (GVC) improves their productivity. To control for the self-selection effect (more productive firms self-select to join a GVC), propensity-score matching and difference-in-difference methods are...

This paper asks how market expansion contributes to productivity growth. It investigates whether entry to both new international markets and new domestic markets is associated with greater productivity growth. It also examines whether exit from export markets is necessarily associated with...

Le present document donne une perspective provinciale du ralentissement de la croissance de la productivite et de la croissance economique dans l'ensemble du secteur canadien des entreprises entre 2000 et 2010, comparativement a la fin des annees 1990. L'etude s'appuie sur la base de donnees...

This paper provides a provincial perspective on the slowdown in productivity and economic growth in the total business sector in Canada between 2000 and 2010 compared to the late 1990s. It uses the most recent provincial multifactor productivity database.

La presente etude porte sur la maniere dont l'expansion des entreprises sur les marches contribue a la croissance de la productivite. On y examine la question de savoir s'il existe un lien entre l'entree sur de nouveaux marches, tant internationaux qu'interieurs, et une croissance plus marquee...