Productivity levels and productivity growth rates vary significantly over space. These differences are perhaps most pronounced between countries, but they remain acutely evident within national spaces as economic growth favors some cities and regions and not others. In this paper, we map the...

La variation spatiale des niveaux de productivite et des taux de croissance de la productivite est considerable. Les ecarts les plus prononces sont peut etre ceux observes entre pays, mais des differences demeurent fort evidentes dans les espaces nationaux, car la croissance economique favorise...

Il existe de nombreuses preuves qu'un grand nombre d'entreprises se regroupent au niveau spatial et qu'il y a une association entre la formation de grappes et la productivite. Au lieu de determiner les vastes effets de la formation de grappes, le present document explore comment les differents...

There is abundant evidence that many firms cluster together in space and that there is an association between clustering and productivity. This paper moves beyond identifying the broad effects of clustering and explores how different types of firms benefit from agglomeration. It advances...

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...

Productivity and wages tend to be higher in cities. This is typically explained by agglomeration economies, which increase the returns associated with urban locations. Competing arguments of specialization and diversity undergird these claims. Empirical research has long sought to confirm the...

Pour comprendre l'importance du processus dynamique d'entree dans l'economie canadienne, il faut en mesurer l'etendue. Ce document vise principalement a resumer l'information dont nous disposons sur l'envergure de l'entree dans l'economie du Canada. Ce document vise egalement un second but....

Understanding the importance of the dynamic entry process in the Canadian economy involves measuring size of entry. The main purpose of this paper is to summarize the information we have on the amount of entry in Canada. The paper also fulfils another purpose. Some studies have focused on...

Le present document de recherche etudie les changements observes au niveau de la diversification des entreprises et des usines depuis le debut des annees 70 dans le secteur canadien de la fabrication. Il revele qu'il y a eu, en general, une augmentation de la specialisation tant des entreprises...

This paper studies changes in diversification of firms and plants since the early 1970s in the Canadian manufacturing sector. It finds that there has been a general increase in specialization of both firms and plants. Firms have been continuously reducing the span of industries in which they...