00000nam 2200000za 4500 9.862363 CaOODSP 20250410165339 cr ||||||||||| 180925s1983 onc o f000 0 eng d CaOODSP eng eng fre n-cn--- EC22-3/1983-232E-PDF Trade, tariffs and relative plant scale in Canadian manufacturing industries, 1970-1979 [electronic resource] / by John R. Baldwin ... [et al.]. Ottawa : Economic Council of Canada, 1983. ix, 144 p. : charts. Discussion paper ; no. 232 "May 1983." Digitized edition from print [produced by the Publishing and Depository Services Directorate]. Includes bibliographic references. "Canadian industrial productivity has and continues to lag behind that of the United States. One of the causes of this disparity is commonly considered to be the small size of plants in Canada. This paper, using a specially created database at Statistics Canada, examines the impact of trade and tariff changes in the 1970's -- following upon the Kennedy Round -- on the size distribution of plants in Canada. In particular it focuses attention upon the size of larger Canadian plants relative to larger U.S. plants, since the latter measure is then taken to be the indicator of minimum efficient size -- the smallest size of plant that minimizes unit production costs"--Abstract, p. v. Includes abstract in French. gccst Manufacturing industry gccst Industrial productivity gccst Industrial buildings gccst Trade gccst Tariffs Baldwin, John R. (John Russel) Economic Council of Canada. Discussion paper (Economic Council of Canada) no. 232 (CaOODSP)9.855540 PDF 14.58 MB https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2018/ecc/EC22-3-1983-232-eng.pdf