It is supposed, particularly by supply-side economists, that investment drives the business cycle. While I suggest fixating on any one component will lead to a myopic and sometimes misguided conclusion, it is very difficult to deny that employment is created through capital formation.
We have an interesting graph which makes the link between unemployment & capital formation clear. We have created a ratio: Capital Consumption as a fraction of Gross Private Domestic Investment. This measures how much of investment is new — higher values indicate that more of the investment is going toward replacement rather than expanding capacity.
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