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Do very large producers contribute to the Canada-U.S. productivity gap?

16 Feb 2011

The existence of a significant difference in the underlying productivity performance of very large producers versus other producers could have wide-reaching implications for the effectiveness of policies designed to improve Canada's producitivity performance. This paper examines the productivity performance of plants with 1000 employees or more and determines what contribution this size advantage affords to Canada's relatively weak labour producitivity performance in the manufacturing sector.
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Authors

Almon, Michael-John

Pages
32
Published in
Canada

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