This paper examines whether Canadian firms of different sizes (in terms of employment) grow at different rates year-on-year. The data are from Statistics Canada's Longitudinal Employment Analysis Program and cover the 1999-to-2008 period. The methodology is similar to that used by Haltiwanger,...

La presente etude s?appuie sur des donnees provenant de la base de donnees du Programme d?analyse longitudinale de l?emploi de Statistique Canada pour examiner la distribution des taux de croissance de l?emploi au Canada de 2000 a 2009, en se concentrant surtout sur les entreprises situees dans...

This paper uses data from Statistics Canada's Longitudinal Employment Analysis Program database to study the distribution of annual employment growth rates in Canada over the 2000-to-2009 period, with a special emphasis on firms in the tails of the distribution, referred to here as High-Growth...

Le present document vise a determiner si les entreprises canadiennes de differentes tailles (exprimees par l'emploi) affichent des taux de croissance differents d'annee en annee. Les donnees sont tirees du Programme d'analyse longitudinale de l'emploi de Statistique Canada et couvrent la periode...

This paper examines whether Canadian firms of different sizes (in terms of employment) grow at different rates year-on-year. The data are from Statistics Canada's Longitudinal Employment Analysis Program and cover the 1999-to-2008 period. The methodology is similar to that used by Haltiwanger,...