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Capital intensity

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Updated: Aug 20, 2021

The ratio of capital employed to other factors in production, usually labour, in which case it is measured as the ratio of the total value of capital equipment to the total amount of labour hired.

Reference: Oxford Press Dictonary of Economics, 5th edt.


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