Title Canadian firm and job dynamics / prepared by Ravi Balakrishnan

Published Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2008 (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Gibson Library Connections, 2008)

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Description 1 online resource (25 pages : illustrations Series IMF working paper, 2227-8885 ; no. 08/31 IMF working paper ; WP/08/31. Contents I. Introduction; Figures; 1. Commodity price developments; 2. Unemployment rates across provinces, 2001-Nov. 07; 3. Labor productivity; II. Job and Firm Dynamics: What Previous studies say; III. Comparing Canada and the United States; A. Finding comparable databases; B. Converting U.S. data to the Firm Level and Annual Frequencies; C. Definitions; D. Aggregate Job Flows; Tables; 1. Conversion factors; E. Rigidities, and Firm Size and Sector Composition; 2. Job flows in Canada and the United States; 3. Job flows correlations 4. Distribution of employment by firm size in Canada and the United States5. Distribution of firms by firm size in Canada and the United States; 6. Percentage share of gross job gains and losses by firm size in Canada and the United States, 1993 to 2004; F. Impact of Creative destruction on Productivity; 7. Job reallocation, Panel regressions across Canada and the United States; 8. Job reallocation associated with births and deaths, Panel regressions across Canada and the United States; IV. Reallocation and Comparing Across Canadian Provinces; A. National versus Provincial Trends B. Panel Regressions9. Job flows across Canadian Provinces; 10. Average job flows across Canada by industry and firm size, 1993 to 2004; 11. Job reallocation by firm size, Panel regressions across Canadian provinces; C. How important is Reallocation?; 12. Job reallocation by industry, Panel regressions across Canadian provinces; V. Conclusions and Policy Implications; 4. Ratio in percent of excess job reallocation due to between (as opposed to within) sector shifts; References Summary To understand better Canada's smooth reallocation of labor in response to the recent commodity price boom, but seemingly poor productivity performance, this paper examines job and firm dynamics in Canada relative to the United States. Overall, it finds that while Canada's labor market efficiency seems comparable to that of the United States, product market rigidities appear to be reducing Canada's capacity for creative destruction, hence undermining productivity growth Notes Also available in print version "February 2008." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 24-25) Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Business enterprises -- United States -- Econometric models Business enterprises -- Canada -- Econometric models Job creation -- Canada -- Econometric models Job creation -- United States -- Econometric models Labor market -- Canada -- Econometric models Labor market -- United States -- Econometric models Business enterprises -- Econometric models Job creation -- Econometric models Labor market -- Econometric models Business. Business cycle. Canada. Coefficient of determination. Economics. Economy. Employment. John haltiwanger. Labour economics. Productivity. Canada United States Genre/Form Electronic books Form Electronic book ISBN 1282450697 9781282450691 145191346X 9781451913460 1462301320 9781462301324 1452772304 9781452772301 9786613821645 6613821640

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