One is that the considerable
lack of highly skilled laborers prevents domestic firms from operating and exploiting new
technologies. It takes a while to learn by doing or for workers to learn about the use of new
capital goods fully. However, many Vietnamese manufacturing firms often invest in new
equipment but continue to use this with existing equipment, resulting in a slowdown of
productivity due to incompatibility issues. Nonetheless, the slowdown is short-lived, that is,
within five years