La presente analyse a pour objectif d?examiner la convergence interprovinciale du revenu au Canada de 1926 a 2011 en utilisant des estimations du revenu du menage disponible par habitant fondees sur les Comptes nationaux. Le revenu du menage disponible est le revenu dont disposent les...

Dans le cadre de cet article, on examine si les Canadiens paient plus cher que les Americains pour les biens et services qu'ils achetent, en utilisant les donnees relatives aux prix de 160 produits pour chacune des cinq annees etudiees (1985, 1990, 1993, 1996 et 1999).

The paper examines whether Canadians were paying more than the Americans for the goods and services they purchase, based on more than 160 product price data for each of the five years under study (1985, 1990, 1993, 1996, 1999).

Dans ce document, on compare le produit interieur brut (PIB) par habitant entre les provinces canadiennes de 1990 a 2003. On y examine d'abord les differences relatives du PIB par habitant en dollars courants entre les provinces et au fil du temps. Dans la deuxieme section, on decompose la...

This paper compares gross domestic product (GDP) per capita across Canadian provinces for the period 1990 to 2003. It starts by examining relative GDP per capita measured in current dollars across provinces and over time. In the second section, growth in nominal dollar GDP is broken down into a...

Using data from the Provincial KLEMS database, this paper asks whether provincial economies have undergone structural change in their business sectors since 2000. It does so by applying a measure of industrial change (the dissimilarity index) using measures of output (real GDP) and hours worked....

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...

This paper describes per capita employment income disparities across provinces and across the urban-rural continuum, from larger to small cities and between cities and rural areas. Its first objective is to compare the degree of income disparities across provinces to income disparities across...

This paper examines the presence of knowledge spillovers that affect the adoption of advanced technologies in the Canadian manufacturing sector. It examines whether plants that adopt advanced technologies are more likely to do so when there are other nearby plants that do so within a model of...