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The Importance of Entry to Canadian Manufacturing with an Appendix on Measurement Issues

Beckstead, Desmond; Baldwin, John R.; Girard, Andree - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2002

Understanding the importance of the dynamic entry process in the Canadian economy involves measuring size of entry. The … main purpose of this paper is to summarize the information we have on the amount of entry in Canada. The paper also …). Interpretation of the results of these studies is difficult unless methodological issues regarding how entry is measured are …

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International Competition and Industrial Performance: Allocative Efficiency, Productive Efficiency, and Turbulence

Caves, Richard; Baldwin, John R. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1997

records for Canada over 1973-1992 indicate, with time and industry effect, controlled, market-share turnover, entry, exit, and …

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Structural Change in the Canadian Manufacturing Sector (1970-90)

Baldwin, John R.; Raffiquzzaman, Mohammed - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1994

This paper investigates structural change at the national and the regional level in five broadly defined sectors of the Canadian economy -- the natural-resource-based, the labour-intensive, the scale-based, the product-differentiated, and the science-based sectors. Three aspects of change are...

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Learning from Failure: Organizational Mortality and the Resource-based View

Thornhill, Stewart; Amit, Raphael - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2003

This paper examines the factors underlying firm failure, and compares the failure mechanisms for young firms against those of older organizations. This paper suggests that there are systematic differences between the determinants of firm failure for firms that fail early in life and those that...

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Selection Versus Evolutionary Adaptation: Learning and Post-entry Performance

Baldwin, John R.; Raffiquzzaman, Mohammed - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1995

the extent to which improvements in the performance of an entry cohort are the result of a selection process that culls … incumbent firms. Both selection and evolutionary learning are related to post-entry performance. Despite the difference in the … effect of selection and learning on the amount of post-entry growth, selection per se is a more important contributor to …

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Plant Turnover and Productivity Growth in Canadian Manufacturing

Gu, Wulong; Baldwin, John R. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2003

This paper outlines the size of the turnover in plants that have entered and exited the Canadian manufacturing sector during the three periods: 1973-1979, 1979-1988 and 1988-1997. It also examines the contribution of plant turnover to labour productivity growth in the manufacturing sector over...

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Have Small Firms Created a Disproportionate Share of New Jobs in Canada? A Reassessment of the Facts

Picot, Garnett; Dupuy, Richard; Baldwin, John R. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1994

The statistical observation that small firms have created the majority of new jobs during the 1980s has had a tremendous influence on public policy. Governmentshave looked to the small firm sector for employment growth, and have promoted policies to augment this expansion. However, recent...

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Changing Trade Barriers and Canadian Firms: Survival and Exit After the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement

Baggs, Jennifer - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2004

This paper considers the implications of changing trade barriers on the survival of Canadian manufacturing firms. A segmented market Cournot model was developed to describe the effects of trade liberalization for heterogeneous firms operating in diverse industries. The predictions of this model...

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A Portrait of Entrants and Exits

Baldwin, John R. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1999

Entry and exit are important phenomena. This paper reviews the evidence on the size of this process and its …

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Restructuring in the Canadian Manufacturing Sector from 1970 to 1990: Industry and Regional Dimensions of Job Turnover

Baldwin, John R.; Raffiquzzaman, Mohammed - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1995

the pattern and magnitude of job gain, job loss, and total job turnover due to growth and decline of some firms, and entry …

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