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Are small or large producers driving the Canada-U.S. labour productivity gap? Recent evidence from manufacturing

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  • Jianmin Tang

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This paper shows that the higher smallplant employment share in Canada compared with the United States mattered for the CanadaU.S. manufacturing labourproductivity gap, but it did not contribute to the widening of the gap between 2002 and 2007. In addition, it shows that while the weaker productivity performance of small plants in Canada compared with the United States accounted for much of the gap in a particular year, the deterioration in the productivity performance of large plants in Canada was responsible for most of the widening gap over this period.

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  • Jianmin Tang, 2014. "Are small or large producers driving the Canada-U.S. labour productivity gap? Recent evidence from manufacturing," Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Economics Association, vol. 47(2), pages 517-539, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:cje:issued:v:47:y:2014:i:2:p:517-539
    DOI: 10.1111/caje.12080
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    1. Jianmin Tang, 2015. "Employment and Productivity: Exploring the Trade-off," International Productivity Monitor, Centre for the Study of Living Standards, vol. 28, pages 63-80, Spring.
    2. Jean-Thomas Bernard & Md. Jakir Hussain & Mishaal Masud Sinha, 2016. "Survival of the Cleanest? Evidence from a Plant Level Analysis of Pollutant Emissions in Canadian Pulp and Paper Industry, 2005-2013," Working Papers 1604E, University of Ottawa, Department of Economics.
    3. Lin Shao & Rongsheng Tang, 2021. "Allocative Efficiency and Aggregate Productivity Growth in Canada and the United States," Staff Working Papers 21-1, Bank of Canada.
    4. Tang, Jianmin & Wang, Weimin, 2020. "Technological frontier, technical efficiency and the post-2000 productivity slowdown in Canada," Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Elsevier, vol. 55(C), pages 12-25.

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    • O40 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - General
    • O51 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - U.S.; Canada

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