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Friday, 19.04.2024, 23:36
Annual growth in labour costs at 2.2% in euro area; at 2.6% in EU28
The two main components of labour costs are wages & salaries and
non-wage costs. In the euro area, the cost of wages & salaries per hour
worked grew by 1.9% and the non-wage component by 2.9% in the second quarter of
2018 compared with the same quarter of the previous year. In the first quarter
of 2018, the annual changes were +1.8% and +2.8% respectively. In the EU28,
both the costs of hourly wages & salaries and the non-wage component rose
by 2.6% in the second quarter of 2018. In the first quarter of 2018, annual
changes were +2.7% and +3.1% respectively.
Breakdown
by economic activity
In the second quarter of 2018 compared with the same quarter of the
previous year, hourly labour costs in the euro area rose by 2.2% in industry,
by 2.7% in construction, by 2.5% in the services and by 1.5% in the (mainly)
nonbusiness economy. In the EU28, labour costs per hour grew by 2.8% in
industry, by 4.1% in construction, by 2.7% in services and by 2.2% in the
(mainly) non-business economy.
Member
States
In the second quarter of 2018, the highest annual increases in hourly
labour costs for the whole economy were registered in Romania (+15.6%), Latvia
(+11.7%) and Hungary (+10.2%), while the lowest annual increases in hourly
labour costs were recorded in Luxembourg (+0.6%), Spain (+0.7%) and the
Netherlands (+0.9%).