Cyclical adjustment, capital-labor substitution and total factor productivity convergence - East Germany after unification

Jahrbucher fur Nationalokonomie und Statistik

Volumn 232, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 445-459

  Smolny, Werner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

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EID: 84864538284     PISSN: 00214027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/jbnst-2012-0405     Document Type: Article

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