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Advanced Technology Use in Canadian Manufacturing Establishments

Baldwin, John R.; Diverty, Brent - 1998

This paper investigates the characteristics of Canadian manufacturing plants that are related to the use of advanced technologies. The data used are taken from the 1989 Survey of Manufacturing Technology and are linked to administrative data taken from the Census of Manufacturers. Technology use...

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Does Gibrat's Law Hold? Evidence from Canadian Retail and Manufacturing Firms

Petrunia, Robert J. - 2006

This paper investigates the validity of Gibrat's Law holding for firms in manufacturing and retail trade sectors. The object is to expand our knowledge of Gibrat's Law to include non-manufacturing firms. A unique longitudinal firm-level database, which contains information on Canadian...

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Union Wage Determination in Canadian and U.S. Manufacturing, 1964-1990 : A Comparative Analysis

Budd, John W. - 1998

The author analyzes nominal and real wage changes in unionized manufacturing firms in Canada and the United States over … United States than in Canada. Real wage determination changed little in the United States before 1986, at which point real … wages began falling relative to what would have been predicted based on patterns of bargaining in earlier years. In Canada …

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International Competitiveness and Industry Pricing in Canadian Manufacturing

Karikari, John A. - 2011

This paper examines the effect of the international competitiveness of home producers on their pricing. Evidence based on the 1970-75 period suggests the claim that in the Canadian manufacturing sector domestic prices are set in accordance with a mixture of two pricing hypotheses: the...

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Fitness Versus Fatness : Productivity, Financial Conditions, and the Survival of New Canadian Manufacturing Firms

Huynh, Kim P. - 2009

labour productivity; industry conditions, such as the real exchange rate, the differential US-Canada tariff rates, entry …

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Labour Productivity in Late Nineteenth Century Quebec and Ontario Manufacturing : Explaining Ontario's Advantage

Altman, Morris - 2010

This article present a case study of the historical causes of interregional differentials in labour productivity which played, and still continues to play, an important role in explaining interregional and international differences in the amount of goods and services available per person....

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Concession Bargaining and Product Market Competition : The Experience of the Canadian Manufacturing Sector

Beaucage, André - 2010

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Manufacturing productivity, deindustrialization, and reindustrialization

Tregenna, Fiona - 2011

In considering pathways to industrialization in the twenty-first century, cognisance needs to be taken of the fact that many countries have actually been deindustrializing. This paper analyses deindustrialization experiences internationally, by decomposing changes in the level and share of...

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Analysis of Innovation and Energy Profiles in the Turkish Manufacturing Sector

Okay, Nesrin; Konukman, Alp Er S.; Akman, Ugur - 2014

We present Turkey’s manufacturing-sector innovation data and, for the first time, analyze likely relationships among GDP growth, sectoral innovation intensities, energy consumptions, and energy-saving potentials. We detect a power-law-like relationship between the projected energy-saving...

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Industrial Production Dynamics in Q3 2019 : Market Factors

Kaukin, Andrey - 2019

Based on the results of Q3 2019, the industrial production demonstrated growth which was facilitated by positive dynamics both in the primary and manufacturing sectors. At the same time, it is not absolutely certain that growth will continue in the long-term prospect. In the past few months,...

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