Economic analysts have expressed significant interest in the transition of the industrial base towards knowledge-intensive production. A central aspect of this transition is the growth and development of industries that provide the technological and scientific foundations for what is often...

Baldwin J. R., Beckstead D., Brown W. M. and Rigby D. L. Agglomeration and the geography of localization economies in Canada, Regional Studies. This paper maps the spatial variation in productivity levels across Canadian cities and models the underlying determinants of that variation. There are...

Productivity levels and productivity growth rates vary significantly over space. These differences are perhaps most pronounced between countries, but they remain acutely evident within national spaces as economic growth favors some cities and regions and not others. In this paper, we map the...

Estimates of GDP are sensitive to whether a business expenditure is treated as an investment or an intermediate input. Shifting an expenditure category from intermediate expenditures to investment expenditures increases GDP. While the international guide to measurement (the SNA (93)) recognizes...

Pour comprendre l'importance du processus dynamique d'entree dans l'economie canadienne, il faut en mesurer l'etendue. Ce document vise principalement a resumer l'information dont nous disposons sur l'envergure de l'entree dans l'economie du Canada. Ce document vise egalement un second but....

Understanding the importance of the dynamic entry process in the Canadian economy involves measuring size of entry. The main purpose of this paper is to summarize the information we have on the amount of entry in Canada. The paper also fulfils another purpose. Some studies have focused on...

Using a comprehensive micro-database of Canadian firms in conjunction with industry-level data on commodity flows, we develop a profile of corporate diversification within the Canadian economy. Our analysis has two major objectives. First, we decompose corporate diversification into horizontal...

La variation spatiale des niveaux de productivite et des taux de croissance de la productivite est considerable. Les ecarts les plus prononces sont peut etre ceux observes entre pays, mais des differences demeurent fort evidentes dans les espaces nationaux, car la croissance economique favorise...

Nous degageons un profil de la diversification des societes dans l'economie canadienne a l'aide d'une base complete de micro-donnees sur les entreprises canadiennes et de donnees au niveau des industries sur les flux des echanges. Notre analyse vise deux objectifs majeurs. Nous decomposons...

Dans ce document, on examine le deplacement des sieges sociaux vers l'etranger de 1999 a 2002. A cette fin, on utilise les donnees du Registre des entreprises de Statistique Canada.