Unit labor costs have risen, and potential output growth has fallen.

Declining competitiveness is best captured in a single indicator unit labor costs, which measure the average cost of labor per unit of output.

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How is this possible? After all, higher productivity should bring lower unit labor costs.

The initial installation cost of a nuclear power plant may be high its operating costs, however, are relatively low and stable.

Competitiveness, which is usually measured in terms of unit labor costs, is a relative concept.

Since the euro s introduction, unit labor costs have risen dramatically faster in France than they have in Germany.

Unit labor costs reflect compensation levels and productivity gains in productivity can offset the effect of wage growth.

Fukushima showed that the risk of nuclear power is too high, which in turn has also increased the costs of this energy form.

Unit labor costs in Greece, Portugal, Spain, and Italy grew 20 30 faster than in Germany in the euro s first decade, and somewhat faster than unit labor costs in northern Europe as a whole.

We know from our work around the continent that transaction costs of reaching the market, and the risks of transacting in rural, agriculture markets, are extremely high.

Indeed, despite a 1.3 drop in real wages in 2011, unit labor costs remained unchanged.

Persistently weak labor productivity growth has created a situation in which unit labor costs do not fall, even if real wages remain stagnant or decline. Indeed, despite a 1.3 drop in real wages in 2011, unit labor costs remained unchanged.

The result has been elevated unit labor costs relative to France s peer group (especially Germany) and stubbornly high unemployment.

There is a vast difference between unit labor costs real wages adjusted for productivity in Germany and in the heavily indebted southern countries.

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A reduction in unit labor costs can also increase competitiveness only to the extent that it actually results in price reductions.

The resulting rise in output per worker, together with slow wage growth, reduced unit labor costs.

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A rapid reduction in unit labor costs, through structural reforms that increased productivity growth in excess of wages, is just as unlikely.

After a decade that saw wages grow faster than productivity, unit labor costs (and the real exchange rate based on those costs) appreciated sharply.

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In the first decade of the euro, nominal unit labor costs rose sharply in Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, and Spain, while virtually flatlining in Germany.

Then a decade of nominal wage growth that out paced productivity gains led to a rise in unit labor costs, real exchange rate appreciation, and large current account deficits.

But gains in measured productivity growth from this source are not permanent changes, so a large part of the reported reductions in unit labor costs are temporary.

Likewise, competitiveness losses have been partly reversed as wages have lagged productivity growth, thus reducing unit labor costs, and some structural reforms are ongoing.

The additional requirements under this heading related to the increased costs of mine detection and mine clearing services under a memorandum of agreement as replacement for services previously provided by a demining contingent.

As enterprises seek to reduce operational costs, they have the option to outsource non core activities to countries that can provide a high level of service with much lower labour costs.

Persistently weak labor productivity growth has created a situation in which unit labor costs do not fall, even if real wages remain stagnant or decline.

Middle income families also insist on buying homes, despite the highest multiple of home price to income among advanced economies and a housing finance system that imposes high borrowing costs.

Since 2001, unit labor costs have been growing faster than real GDP and employment, undermining the economy s competitiveness vis à vis developing countries.

The latter is certainly true, but it does not solve the fundamental problem that a country s relative unit labor costs can decline only if another country s rise.

In a monetary union, discrepancies in wage growth relative to productivity gains that is, unit labor costs will result in a chronic accumulation of trade surpluses or deficits.

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The problem for post WWII Europe, mired in depression and inflation, was that it lacked foreign reserves, which meant that trade carried a high opportunity cost. To facilitate trade without requiring payment after each transaction, the Organization for European Economic Cooperation created the European Payments Union in 1950.

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