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Acknowledgements
The authors are especially grateful to Bob Buckle for helpful suggestions on testing for the possibility that the response parameters might change over time, and to participants in a Treasury workshop for challenging questions.
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Table of Contents
- Abstract
- Acknowledgements
- Disclaimer
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Data
- 2.2 Total Hours Worked
- 3 Rate of Investment and the Growth of Capital: An International Comparison
- 4 Labour Productivity and Capital Intensity
- 4.3 The gap in the growth of labour productivity
- 4.4 The gap in the level of labour productivity
- 4.5 Decomposing the output gap
- 5 Returns to Capital
- 6 Relative Prices of Labour and Capital
- 6.2 Evidence on relative factor prices
- 6.3 Do the Underlying Production Functions Differ?
- 6.4 Allowing for dynamic effects
- 6.5 Assessing the contribution from relative prices on the capital-labour ratio gap between New Zealand and Australia
- 6.6 Adjustments to the definition of capital
- 7 Summary and Conclusions
- 8 References
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2
- Appendix 3
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Tuesday, 23 October 2007