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EZ Hourly Labour Costs (Q2)

The pick-up in euro-zone hourly wage costs in Q2, along with a big upward revision to Q1, on the face of it suggests that pay pressures in the region continued to build. The detail provides a more nuanced picture, but the key message is that wage inflation is likely to remain strong over the next year.

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