Exporting matters : Pleins feux sur l'exportation : performance des exportateurs au chapitre de la création d'emplois, 1993-2002 : derniers résultats du projet sur les entreprises en croissance

Earlier studies in the Growth Firms Project found that small businesses and high growth firms are important engines of growth, which have created disproportionate shares of net jobs between 1985 and 1999,2 and 1993 and 2002.3 Exporting is very important to Canada’s economy, accounting for 41 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) in 20024 and one in three jobs in Canada.5 Given the relatively [...] Furthermore, exporting has many indirect benefits for the economy: more efficient resource allocation, greater capacity utilization, exploitation of economies of scale and stimulation of technological improvement, resulting from foreign market competition.6 The goal of this study is to examine the job creation performance of exporters, and investigate the number of high growth firms that export, a [...] The main difference between the updated version of the file and that used in the two previous phases of this project is in the industrial classification system. [...] Table 1: Distribution of Exporters and Non-Exporters that Survived from 1993 to 2002, by Size of Firm (in 1993) Non-Exporters Exporters Average Value of Size of Firm Number of Firms Number of Firms Value of Exports Exports per Firm No. [...] Further detail on the relationship between the size of exporters and the value of goods exported is provided in Table 2. The data show that there is some correlation between firm size and volume of goods exported, but this relationship is not strict.