00000nam##2200000za#4500 9.531856 CaOODSP 20210615083105 ta 150406|1999||||xxc||||| f|0| 0 eng|d 0-662-63901-4 CaOODSP eng eng fre n-cn--- C21-24/30-1999 Canada. Industry Canada. The productivity gap between Canadian and U.S. Firms / by Frank Chung Lee and Jianmin Tang. Ottawa - Ontario : Industry Canada 1999. English text, i, 43p. : tables ; 28 cm. Working paper 29 "The paper compares productivity levels between firms in five broad sectors in the two countries since that date (1985). To do this it uses firm-level data from the Compustat and Compact Disclosure data bases, supplemented by industry data from Statistics Canada, the U.S. Department of Commerce, and Jorgenson's capital, labour, energy and material (KLEM) data base. The five broad sectors examined are manufacturing; mining; transportation, communications and utilities (TCU); retail and wholesale (trade); and services. We then consider differences in labour quality, research and development (R&D), capacity utilization, firm size and returns to scale as possible explanations for the gap and the deterioration in each sector. In addition, we explore the difference in industrial structure for manufacturing."--Introduction. Bibliography. The paper compares productivity levels between firms in five broad sectors in the two countries since that date (1985). To do this it uses firm-level data from the Compustat and Compact Disclosure data bases, supplemented by industry data from Statistics Canada, the U.S. Department of Commerce, and Jorgenson's capital, labour, energy and material (KLEM) data base. The five broad sectors examined are manufacturing; mining; transportation, communications and utilities (TCU); retail and wholesale (trade); and services. We then consider differences in labour quality, research and development (R&D), capacity utilization, firm size and returns to scale as possible explanations for the gap and the deterioration in each sector. In addition, we explore the difference in industrial structure for manufacturing.--Introduction Bilingual Softcover 00-50 2000-12-15 Industrial productivity gcpds Industry gcpds Labour gcpds Productivity gcpds Lee, Frank C. Tang, Jianmin L'écart de productivité entre les entreprises canadiennes et américaines / (CaOODSP)9.601298 The productivity gap between Canadian and U.S. firms / (CaOODSP)9.570650 L'écart de productivité entre les entreprises canadiennes et américaines / fre (CaOODSP)9.531857 Working paper ; 29 (CaOODSP)9.509052