La presente etude a pour but d'examiner l'incidence du rendement des entreprises non constituees en societes exploitees par des travailleurs independants sur l'ecart de productivite du travail entre le Canada et les Etats-Unis. A cette fin, le secteur des entreprises de chaque pays est subdivise...

This paper asks how the performance of self-employed unincorporated businesses affects the size of the gap in labour productivity between Canada and the United States. To do so, the business sector in each country is divided into unincorporated and corporate businesses, and estimates of labour...

This paper investigates the link between financial structure and employment growth, and the link between financial structure and inventory growth, among incorporated Canadian manufacturers from 1988 to 1997. It finds that financially vulnerable firms - smaller firms and those with higher...

Le present document porte sur le lien entre la structure financiere et la croissance de l'emploi et des stocks des fabricants canadiens constitues en societe au cours de la periode allant de 1988 a 1997. On observe que les entreprises financierement vulnerables - c'est-a-dire celles de petite...

Trade exerts generally favourable effects on the performance of domestic manufacturing industries in the dimensions of allocative and productive efficiency. This paper reviews theory and recent evidence on these linkages and also explore a third effect-on the turbulence of competitive conditions...

Les echanges commerciaux produisent generalement des effets favorables sur la performance des industries manufacturieres nationales pour ce qui est de l'allocation optimale et de la production optimale. Ce document examine la theorie et les observations recentes sur ces relations et nous...