Deutschland ist zwar produktiver als die meisten anderen Länder, aber Arbeit ist hierzulande aufgrund des hohen Lohnniveaus auch deutlich teurer. Ein beachtlicher Teil der Arbeitskosten steht nicht einmal auf dem Lohnzettel.
In 2018, labour costs in German manufacturing were running at 41.0 euros per employee hour. This puts Germany in fifth place in the German Economic Institute’s comparison of labour costs in 42 countries and means that its costs are almost one-third higher than the average for industrialised countries.
In 2015 labour costs in western German manufacturing industry were 40.90 euros per employee-hour, putting the region sixth out of a total of 44 countries in the IW labour cost comparison. Its labour costs are almost a quarter higher than the average for highly industrialised nations.
In 2014 labour costs per full-time employee in manufacturing industry increased in western and eastern Germany by 2.4 per cent and 4.1 per cent respectively, making cost dynamics in both parts of...
In 2013 labour costs in western German manufacturing were running at 38.77 euros per employee hour. This puts western Germany in sixth place among the 44 countries covered by the IW Labour Costs...
In 2013 labour costs per full-time employee in manufacturing (including energy and con-struction) increased by 1.8 per cent in western Germany and by 0.9 per cent in the east of the country,...
An International Comparison
In 2011 labour costs for manufacturing industry in western Germany amounted to € 37.57 per hour. That put western Germany in sixth place in the Labour Cost Ranking maintained by the Cologne...
Having already risen considerably in 2010, labour costs per full-time employee in manufacturing industry increased again substantially in 2011, climbing in western Germany by 4.9 per cent to...
In 2010, average hourly labor costs in the West German industry amounted to 36.28 euro. This was 25 percent above the average of the countries compared excluding the new member countries of the EU...
In 2010, the rise in total annual labor costs per full-time employee in the German industry more than compensated the drop due to the recession the year before. In West Germany, labor costs rose...
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