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...

Le present document presente les tendances a long terme de l'impartition et de la delocalisation dans les diverses industries au Canada.

Le present document decrit l'evolution du Programme de la productivite multifactorielle lance a Statistique Canada en 1987, ainsi que les ameliorations apportees a la mesure de la productivite multifactorielle depuis ce temps. Ces ameliorations prennent en compte les nouvelles notions abordees...

This paper describes the evolution of the Multifactor Productivity Program launched at Statistics Canada in 1987 and the improvements made in multifactor productivity measurement since then. The improvements were made in response to developments in the economic literature, better data sources,...

Official data from statistical agencies are not always ideal for cross-country comparisons because of differences in data sources and methodology. Analysts who engage in cross-country comparisons need to carefully choose among alternatives and sometimes adapt data especially for their purposes....

This paper provides an overview of the productivity program at Statistics Canada and a brief description of Canada's productivity performance. The paper defines productivity and the various measures that are used to investigate different aspects of productivity growth. It describes the...

This paper examines the effects of alternative specifications of the user costs of capital on the estimated price and volume indices of capital services. It asks how sensitive the results are to the use of exogenous versus endogenous rates of return, to alternate ways of including capital gains,...

Le secteur des Comptes canadiens de productivite (CCP) de Statistique Canada consacre deux programmes a la productivite multifactorielle (PMF). Le Programme de la productivite multifactorielle par principal secteur etablit des indices pour l'ensemble du secteur des entreprises et les groupes...

La presente etude se penche sur le roulement des entreprises et sur la croissance de la productivite dans le secteur canadien du commerce de detail. Le roulement des entreprises a lieu lorsque, en raison du processus concurrentiel, des entreprises sortantes et des entreprises existantes en...

Au cours des trois dernieres decennies, les obstacles tarifaires ont diminue de facon significative, ce qui a mene a une integration plus grande des etablissements de fabrication canadiens aux marches mondiaux, et plus particulierement le marche des Etats-Unis. On a accorde beaucoup d'attention...