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<span style="color:#4B0082">'''''Capital-to-labour rates stagnate'''''</span> | <span style="color:#4B0082">'''''Capital-to-labour rates stagnate'''''</span> | ||
:"Firms have hired workers to produce more to meet the rising demand rather than investing in new | :"Firms have hired workers to produce more to meet the rising demand rather than investing in new capacities. | ||
:As a result capital-to-labour ratios and rates of productivity growth have stagnated." | :As a result capital-to-labour ratios and rates of productivity growth have stagnated." |
Revision as of 14:38, 7 April 2018
The ratio of a firm's capital assets to its spending on labour.
Capital-to-labour rates stagnate
- "Firms have hired workers to produce more to meet the rising demand rather than investing in new capacities.
- As a result capital-to-labour ratios and rates of productivity growth have stagnated."
- The Treasurer magazine, April 2018, p15 - Kallum Pickering, senior UK economist, Berenberg Bank.