Jurriaan Bendien (djjb99@worldonline.nl)
Thu, 21 Oct 1999 23:35:39 +0100
While we're on the subject of wages, maybe you are interested in some
statistics on the average labour cost of a production worker in industry in
Europe, the USA and Asia in 1995, computed as an index by the Institut der
deutschen Wirtschaft (German Economic Institute), where Holland = 100. The
list goes as follows:
Country Index number
1.West Germany 126
2.Switzerland 119
3.Belgium 107
4.Norway 104
5.Japan 103
6.Austria 101
7.Netherlands 100
8.Denmark 99
9.Luxemburg 94
10.Finland 92
11.Sweden 89
12.France 83
13.United States 80
14.Italy 78
15.East Germany 76
16.Canada 76
17.Australia 67
18.Ireland 64
19.Great Britain 63
20.Spain 58
21.Greece 35
22.Singapore 29
23.Portugal 27
24.Korea 25
25.Taiwan 25
26.Hong Kong 22
27.Hungary 13
28.Poland 10
29.Czech republic 9
30.Slovak Republic 8
31.Thailand 8
32.Malaysia 7
33.Bulgaria 5
34.Roumania 4
35.Indonesia 3
36.Russia 3
37.China 2
In solidarity,
Jurriaan
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