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This paper asks whether synergies or managerial discipline operates in different ways across small versus large plants to affect the likelihood of mergers. Our findings indicate that those characteristics which provide the type of synergies upon which ownership changes rely are important factors...
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La presente etude s?appuie sur des donnees provenant de la base de donnees du Programme d?analyse longitudinale de l?emploi de Statistique Canada pour examiner la distribution des taux de croissance de l?emploi au Canada de 2000 a 2009, en se concentrant surtout sur les entreprises situees dans...
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This paper uses data from Statistics Canada's Longitudinal Employment Analysis Program database to study the distribution of annual employment growth rates in Canada over the 2000-to-2009 period, with a special emphasis on firms in the tails of the distribution, referred to here as High-Growth...
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Les echanges commerciaux produisent generalement des effets favorables sur la performance des industries manufacturieres nationales pour ce qui est de l'allocation optimale et de la production optimale. Ce document examine la theorie et les observations recentes sur ces relations et nous...
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This paper considers the implications of changing trade barriers on the survival of Canadian manufacturing firms. A segmented market Cournot model was developed to describe the effects of trade liberalization for heterogeneous firms operating in diverse industries. The predictions of this model...
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Le present document porte sur les variations annuelles de l'emploi dans le secteur canadien des entreprises de 2001 a 2009. Cette periode comprend une periode d'expansion (2001 a 2008), suivie d'une recession (2008-2009). Les donnees au niveau de l'entreprise sont utilisees pour decomposer la...
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This paper looks at annual changes in Canadian business sector employment from 2001 to 2009. This period encompasses an expansionary phase (2001 to 2008), followed by a recession (2008/2009). Firm-level data are used to decompose yearly net employment change into gross employment creation and...
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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...
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-trade models involving heterogeneous firms, we further find that the effect of exchange-rate movements and tariff cuts on exit are …
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records for Canada over 1973-1992 indicate, with time and industry effect, controlled, market-share turnover, entry, exit, and …
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