Foreign multinationals play an important role in Canadian economy. Their affiliates accounted for about 50 percent of manufacturing production and 30 percent of total business production in Canada. Understanding the linkage between foreign multinational production in Canada and Canadian...

To predict the annual total yields of Chinese aquatic products in future five years (2011-2015), based on the theory and method of gray system, this paper firstly establishes a conventional GM (1,1) model and a gray metabolic GM (1,1) model respectively to predict the annual total yields of...

In this paper, we estimate the impacts of product market competition and skill shortages on the productivity level performance of Canadian manufacturing firms. We use firms’ perceptions of their competitive environment from the Statistics Canada 1999 Survey of Innovation to measure product...

This paper presents a non-parametric approach for adjusting the multifactor productivity growth (MFPG) measure for variations in capacity utilization over time. In the framework developed here, a capital utilization measure is derived from the economic theory of production and is estimated by...

Le present article decrit une approche non parametrique de la correction de la mesure de la croissance de la productivite multifactorielle (CPMF) visant a tenir compte des variations de l'utilisation de la capacite au fil du temps. Dans le cadre elabore ici, en partant de la theorie economique...

Le present rapport decrit les revisions apportees a la mesure de la croissance de la productivite multifactorielle (PMF) et aux variables connexes dans le secteur des entreprises et pour differentes industries. Ces revisions ont decoule de la revision historique du Systeme de comptabilite...

Le present document decrit les tendances de l'entree et de la sortie d'entreprises dans les provinces canadiennes, le lien entre ces tendances et les differences de structure industrielle, et la reaction de l'entree et de la sortie d'entreprises aux changements qui se produisent dans...

This paper highlights revisions to multifactor productivity (MFP) growth and related variables in the business sector and in individual industries, which resulted from the historical revision of the Canadian System of National Accounts (CSNA) released October 1, 2012, revisions to the labour...

This paper describes the patterns of firm entry and exit across provinces in Canada, the relationship of these patterns to differences in industrial structure and the response of firm entry and exit to changes in the economic environment. Firm entry and exit play an important role in shaping...