This paper looks at annual changes in Canadian business sector employment from 2001 to 2009. This period encompasses an … expansionary phase (2001 to 2008), followed by a recession (2008/2009). Firm-level data are used to decompose yearly net employment … change into gross employment creation and destruction, which makes it possible to measure the size of total annual employment …

of research projects being carried out at Statistics Canada on the topic of business dynamics.In the last decade, small … information in Canada on the payoff to small firms for attempting to innovate. Firm performance in Canada has not been …

. It is based on the working paper Firm Dynamics: Employment Growth Rates of Small Versus Large Firms in Canada, which is …This article in the Economic Insights series looks at the relationship between firm size and employment growth rates … the result of a joint research effort by Statistics Canada and Industry Canada …

employment creation and gross employment destruction at the firm level. It is based on research carried out by Statistics Canada …This article in the Economic Insights series decomposes business-sector annual net employment growth into gross … on the topic of business dynamics.The net employment created or destroyed in the business sector in a given year provides …

We examine effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on employment losses across metropolitan area status and population size …. Non-metropolitan and metropolitan areas of all sizes experienced significant employment losses, but the impacts are much … larger in large metropolitan areas. Employment losses manifest as increased unemployment, labor force withdrawal, and …

employment distribution over firm size categories between Canada and the United States can account for the Canada-U.S. labour … this relationship, the difference in the employment distribution over firm sizes between Canada and the United States can … distribution of employment over firm size categories has affected Canadian aggregate productivity, and whether differences in the …