United States, euro zone: Hiring difficulties are expected to drive up wage growth and productivity-enhancing investment: Has this been the case?
In the United States and the euro zone, labour market pressures are mounting and companies face significant hiring difficulties. This is expected to lead both to faster wage growth and to productivity-enhancing investment to enable companies to produce more despite the hiring difficulties. Has this been the case ? In the United States, there has been no acceleration in labour costs although productivity-enhancing investment and productivity gains have risen (slightly) ; In the euro zone, labour costs have accelerated but productivity growth has not picked up .