The Restructuring of Canada's Automotive Industry, 2005–2014 Journal Articles

abstract

• The Canadian automotive industry underwent substantial restructuring between 2005 and 2014. This article draws on establishment-level data to examine these changes as they relate to both automotive assembly and automotive parts manufacturing. It also elucidates the limitations of using official government statistics to study the automotive industry. In addition to analyzing changes to the structure and composition of the industry, our data demonstrate that the industry employs far more people than are reported in official government statistics. We conclude that improvements to data collection methods are important for policy-makers to develop effective supports for the automotive industry.

authors

• Sweeney, Brendan A
• Mordue, Greig

status

• published 

publication date

• January 2017

has subject area

• 1605 Policy and Administration (FoR)
• Economics (Science Metrix)

published in

• Canadian Public Policy/ Analyse de Politiques  Journal

keywords

• Business & Economics
• Economics
• GEOGRAPHY
• NAICS codes
• Public Administration
• Social Sciences
• automotive industry
• employment
• restructuring

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.3138/cpp.2016-026

start page

• S1

end page

• S15

volume

• 43

issue

• S1