Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/53956 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Bank of Canada Working Paper No. 2008-45
Publisher: 
Bank of Canada, Ottawa
Abstract: 
This paper examines the relationship between firm size and productivity. In contrast to previous studies, this paper offers evidence of the relationship not only from manufacturing firms, but from non-manufacturing firms as well. Furthermore, the aggregate importance of the firm sizeproductivity relationship is gauged by calculating to what extent shifts in the distribution of employment over firm size categories has affected Canadian aggregate productivity, and whether differences in the employment distribution over firm size categories between Canada and the United States can account for the Canada-U.S. labour productivity gap. The importance of large and small firms to changes in productivity is also examined. A positive relationship between firm size and both labour productivity and TFP is found in both the manufacturing and non-manufacturing sectors. Given this relationship, the difference in the employment distribution over firm sizes between Canada and the United States can account for half of the Canada-U.S. labour productivity gap in manufacturing.
Subjects: 
Productivity
JEL: 
L11
L25
O47
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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