L'analyse porte sur l'evolution de la nature du travail autonome en comparant les taux de transition du marche du travail chez les hommes (entre le non-emploi, l'emploi remunere, le travail autonome pour compte propre et le travail autonome avec aide remuneree) dans deux echantillons de...

This paper examines how the nature of self-employment may have changed, by comparing the labour market transition rates for males (between non-employment, paid employment, own-account self-employment, and self-employment with paid help) in two panels of the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics...

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...

A l'aide de donnees sur les etablissements manufacturiers en exploitation au Canada de 1981 a 1997, nous estimons l'effet des variations du niveau d'investissement direct etranger (IDE) sur la productivite du travail dans les etablissements sous controle canadien. Nous faisons la distinction...

This paper examines head office employment in the Canadian manufacturing sector. It focuses on the characteristics that are related to the creation of a head office and the amount of employment in that head office. Among the characteristics investigated are firm size, number of plants,...

This paper examines the course of profitability of large Canadian-resident enterprises over the period 1990-98. It focuses first on the differences in the profitability of Canadian-controlled and U.S.-controlled enterprises and asks whether there are differences in trends in profitability by...

This paper examines whether new views of the multinational that see these firms as decentralizing research and development (R&D) activities abroad to exploit local competencies accord with the activities of multinationals in Canada. The paper describes the innovation regime of multinational...

Using data on manufacturing plants operating in Canada for the period 1981 to 1997, we estimate the effect of changes in the level of foreign control upon labour productivity in domestically-controlled plants. We distinguish between foreign control in own industry of domestically-controlled...

This paper examines two potential benefits of foreign-controlled plants in the Canadian manufacturing sector: the superior performance of foreign-controlled plants and their productivity spillovers to domestic plants. The paper finds that foreign-controlled plants are more productive, more...