This paper uses plant-level data on productivity growth and changes in market share over different periods during the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s to investigate whether plants with declining market shares obtain productivity spillovers from more successful producers and whether the impact of...

Nous utilisons des donnees au niveau de l'etablissement sur la croissance de la productivite et sur la variation des parts de marche au cours de differentes periodes reparties a l'interieur des annees 1970, 1980 et 1990 afin de determiner si les etablissements dont la part de marche diminue...

Nous examinons les effets simultanes des reductions tarifaires et des fluctuations des taux de change reels sur la disparition des usines dans les industries manufacturieres canadiennes entre 1979 et 1996. Nous constatons que l'appreciation de la devise ainsi que les reductions tarifaires...

We examine the simultaneous effects of real-exchange-rate movements and of tariff reductions on plant death in Canadian manufacturing industries between 1979 and 1996. We find that both currency appreciation and tariff cuts increase the probability of plant death, but that tariff reductions have...

The food-processing industry benefits from a wide a range of new advanced technologies. Technological advances include computer-based information and control systems, as well as sophisticated processing and packaging methods that enhance product quality, improve food safety and reduce costs....

La productivite et les salaires ont tendance a etre plus eleves dans les villes. L'explication courante de ce phenomene repose sur les economies d'agglomeration, qui font augmenter le rendement associe au fait d'occuper un emplacement urbain. Les arguments paralleles axes sur la specialisation...

Dans cet article, on examine les determinants de l'innovation et le role de celle-ci dans la croissance de la productivite, l'evolution des parts de marche et la survie des etablissements dans le secteur canadien de la fabrication. On y presente un modele permettant d'examiner l'effet de...

This paper examines small producers in the Canadian and U.S. manufacturing sectors in terms of output and employment from the early 1970s to the late 1990s.

This paper examines the determinants of innovation and the role of innovation in productivity growth, shifts in market share and survival in the Canadian manufacturing sector. It presents a model that examines the effect of innovation on plant performance and plant survival.

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...