Dynamics of Labour and Capital Adjustment – A Comparison of Germany and the Netherlands
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Keywords
investment; labour demand; interrelation; panel data; GMM;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
- E22 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Investment; Capital; Intangible Capital; Capacity
- E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EEC-2004-08-02 (European Economics)
- NEP-LAB-2004-08-02 (Labour Economics)
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