Product Market Competition,Skill Shortages and Productivity: Evidence from Canadian Manufacturing Firms |
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Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Jianmin?TangEmail author Weimin?Wang |
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Institution: | (1) Micro-Economic Policy Analysis Branch, Industry Canada, 235 Queen Street, 1010B Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0H5, Canada;(2) Micro-Economic Policy Analysis Branch, Industry Canada, 235 Queen Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0H5, Canada |
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Abstract: | In this paper, we estimate the impacts of product market competition and skill shortages on the productivity level performance of Canadian manufacturing firms. We use firms perceptions of their competitive environment from the Statistics Canada 1999 Survey of Innovation to measure product market competition and skill shortages. We argue in the paper that such perceptions are important for productivity level performance. After controlling for other factors, we find that product market competition has a positive impact on the performance of medium-sized and large-sized firms, and that skill shortages have a negative impact on the performance of small-sized and medium-sized firms.Jel Classification: L0, O0 |
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Keywords: | product market competition skill shortages productivity |
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