Trade, tariffs and relative plant scale in Canadian manufacturing industries, 1970-1979 / by John R. Baldwin ... [et al.].: EC22-3/1983-232E-PDF

"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.

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Department/Agency Economic Council of Canada.
Title Trade, tariffs and relative plant scale in Canadian manufacturing industries, 1970-1979 / by John R. Baldwin ... [et al.].
Series title Discussion paper ; no. 232
Publication type Series - View Master Record
Language [English]
Format Electronic
Electronic document
Note(s) "May 1983."
Digitized edition from print [produced by the Publishing and Depository Services Directorate].
Includes bibliographic references.
Includes abstract in French.
Publishing information Ottawa : Economic Council of Canada, 1983.
Author / Contributor Baldwin, John R.(John Russel)
Description ix, 144 p. : charts.
Catalogue number
  • EC22-3/1983-232E-PDF
Subject terms Manufacturing industry
Industrial productivity
Industrial buildings
Trade
Tariffs
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