TY - CHAP AB - The vintage model of capital accumulation predicts that technical progress depends on the installation of new capital equipment. In this chapter it is found that investment raises labor productivity in the G7 countries and Australia. This finding implies that the decline in investment during the global financial crisis will have a long lasting detrimental effect on labor productivity and hence wages. VL - 11 SN - 978-1-78052-397-2, 978-1-78052-396-5/1574-8715 DO - 10.1108/S1574-8715(2011)0000011023 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/S1574-8715(2011)0000011023 AU - Pawley John AU - Juerg Weber Ernst ED - Olivier de La Grandville PY - 2011 Y1 - 2011/01/01 TI - Chapter 18 Investment, Technical Progress, and the Consequences of the Global Economic Crisis T2 - Economic Growth and Development T3 - Frontiers of Economics and Globalization PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 483 EP - 492 Y2 - 2024/09/26 ER -