Niechoj, Torsten; Stein, Ulrike; Stephan, Sabine; … - Institut für Makroökonomie und Konjunkturforschung … - 2011
In 2010, hourly labour costs in the German private sector increased by only 0.6 per cent. In contrast, the average increases of the EU countries and the countries in the euro-zone were 1.7 and 1.6 per cent, respectively. Thus, even in a year with strong economic growth in Germany, the long term...