Le present document vise principalement a fournir une synthese concise d'une vaste gamme de donnees produites et de recherches menees a Statistique Canada sur les multinationales, portant sur des etudes tant recentes que plus anciennes. Au chapitre 2, nous examinons la contribution...

Estimates of GDP are sensitive to whether a business expenditure is treated as an investment or an intermediate input. Shifting an expenditure category from intermediate expenditures to investment expenditures increases GDP. While the international guide to measurement (the SNA (93)) recognizes...

This paper explores differences between innovative and non-innovative establishments in business service industries. It focuses on small establishments that supply core technical inputs to other firms: establishments in computer and related services, engineering, and other scientific and...

Using a comprehensive micro-database of Canadian firms in conjunction with industry-level data on commodity flows, we develop a profile of corporate diversification within the Canadian economy. Our analysis has two major objectives. First, we decompose corporate diversification into horizontal...

This paper summarizes the results of several research studies conducted by the Micro-economic Analysis Division of Statistics Canada that investigate the impact of advanced technology use on business performance. These studies combine establishment-level survey data on advanced technology...

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...

This study investigates the determinants of failure for new Canadian firms. It explores the role that certain factors play in conditioning the likelihood of survival - factors related to industry structure, firm demographics and macroeconomic cycles. It asks whether the determinants of failure...

Ce document porte sur les caracteristiques financieres des petites et moyennes entreprises (PME) canadiennes prosperes.

Dans ce document, on decrit la facon dont le programme analytique du groupe de la productivite de Statistique Canada est utilise pour ameliorer la qualite des produits. On y etudie, entre autres, la pertinence, la coherence et la possibilite d'interpreter les donnees.