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Firm Dynamics: Employment Growth Rates of Small Versus Large Firms in Canada

Dixon, Jay; Rollin, Anne-Marie - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2012

This paper examines whether Canadian firms of different sizes (in terms of employment) grow at different rates year-on-year. The data are from Statistics Canada's Longitudinal Employment Analysis Program and cover the 1999-to-2008 period. The methodology is similar to that used by Haltiwanger,...

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Firm Dynamics: The Death of New Canadian Firms: A Survival Analysis of the 2002 Cohort of Entrants to the Business Sector

Macdonald, Ryan - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2012

Program (LEAP) of Statistics Canada. Entry rates and survival functions for the 2002 cohort are analyzed. The business sector …

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Firm Dynamics: Firm Entry and Exit in the Canadian Provinces, 2000 to 2009

Liu, Huju; Wang, Weimin; Baldwin, John R. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2013

This paper describes the patterns of firm entry and exit across provinces in Canada, the relationship of these patterns … to differences in industrial structure and the response of firm entry and exit to changes in the economic environment …. Firm entry and exit play an important role in shaping industrial structure and dynamics. Although entry and exit are …

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Firm Dynamics: Firm Entry and Exit in Canada, 2000 to 2008

Wang, Weimin; Ciobanu, Oana - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2012

This paper examines firm entry and exit patterns in the Canadian business sector by using the Longitudinal Employment … descriptive analysis of the entry and exit patterns in the Canadian economy in order to form a solid foundation for future in … exiters in terms of both number and employment, the persistence of entry and exit patterns over time, and the correlation …

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Global Links: Long-term Trends in Foreign Investment and Foreign Control in Canada, 1960 to 2000

Baldwin, John R.; Gellatly, Guy - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2005

This paper outlines broad changes in foreign ownership in Canada over the last forty years. It makes use of several different but complementary data sources that are produced by Statistics Canada to analyze the importance of foreign ownership in Canada. Over the last four decades, foreign...

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Firm Dynamics: Variation in Profitability Across Canadian Firms of Different Sizes, 2000 to 2009

Lafrance, Amelie - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2012

Are small firms more profitable than large firms? This paper uses a longitudinal firm-level dataset to explore the financial performance of firms across size classes, and across industries and provinces during the 2000-to-2009 period. It also examines the volatility of profitability across firm...

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Innovation Capabilities: The Knowledge Capital Behind the Survival and Growth of Firms

Baldwin, John R.; Gellatly, Guy - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2006

, longitudinal databases have provided a rich set of studies on entry, exit, mergers and other aspects of dynamics related to growth …

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Innovation Capabilities: Comparing Science and Engineering Employment in Canadian and U.S. Cities

Brown, W. Mark; Beckstead, Desmond - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2006

In recent years, cities have become increasingly interested in their ability to generate, attract and retain human capital. One measure of human capital is employment in science- and engineering-based occupations. This paper provides a comparison of the employment shares of these specialized...

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Innovation Capabilities: Technology Use, Productivity Growth and Business Performance: Evidence from Canadian Technology Surveys

Baldwin, John R.; Gellatly, Guy - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2007

This paper summarizes the results of several research studies conducted by the Micro-economic Analysis Division of Statistics Canada that investigate the impact of advanced technology use on business performance. These studies combine establishment-level survey data on advanced technology...

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Cities and Growth: Earnings Levels Across Urban and Rural Areas: The Role of Human Capital

Brown, W. Mark; Newbold, Bruce; Beckstead, Desmond; … - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2010

Using 2001 Census data, this paper investigates the extent to which the urban-rural gap in the earnings of employed workers is associated with human capital composition and agglomeration economies. Both factors have been theoretically and empirically linked to urban-rural earnings differences....

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