Dans ce document, on analyse les gains considerables de la productivite des industries manufacturieres canadiennes par suite de la reduction des tarifs decoulant de l'Accord de libre-echange entre le Canada et les Etats-Unis.

This paper examines substantial productivity gains in Canadian manufacturing resulting from tariff reductions from the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement.

We use an input-output model to examine the effect of trade integration on productivity growth and the demand for skilled workers in Canada for the period 1981-1997. We find that trade integration has a positive effect on both labour productivity and total factor productivity. Labour...

Le present rapport porte sur deux questions trop peu etudiees, mais qui deviennent de plus en plus importantes, a savoir la mesure de l'integration regionale et les avantages regionaux de l'integration economique nord americaine. L'objectif est d'evaluer l'integration des diverses regions du...

This paper relates to two understudied, but increasingly important concerns: the measurement of regional integration, and the regional benefits to North American economic integration. The objective is to measure Canada's regional integration in manufacturing industries with that of the United...

Arguably the most important development in the Canadian workplace in recent years has been the massive introduction of information and communications technologies (ICT). The impact of this development on a range of variables, including productivity and wages, are manifold, but are still poorly...

The use of information and communication technologies and investment in education and training are widely believed to play an important role in productivity growth at the aggregate level. However, a lack of micro-level data with information on firms and their workforce has limited the extent to...