Plant turnover and productivity growth in Canadian manufacturing

Industrial and Corporate Change

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 417-465

  Baldwin, John R ^a   Gu, Wulong ^a  

^a STATISTICS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIRM OWNERSHIP; LABOR PRODUCTIVITY; MANUFACTURING; TURNOVER;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 33645139101     PISSN: 09606491     EISSN: 14643650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icc/dtj017     Document Type: Article

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