A Study of Job Creation in Canada, 1975-1982

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Finding productive and remunerative employment for all who seek it is the outstanding challenge facing at least the advanced economies. The common tendency is to think of large firms and governments as the big and progressive employers. In fact small and medium-sized businesses in Canada are already very large employers in aggregate. The present study gives evidence that this share is growing, as small and medium firms created most of the net job growth in the private sector in the 1975-80 and 1975-82 period. The greatest relative growth occurred in the smallest category (1-4 employees) and in young firms. By industrial sector the greatest contributions to employment growth were in manufacturing, retailing, and services.

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