大量容易取得的廉价资金掩盖了一个危险的事实：在加入欧元区以后，边缘经济体的竞争力——以单位劳动力成本为衡量指标——一直逐步下降。

The flood of easy money disguised the hard truth that the competitiveness of the peripheral economies, gauged by measures like unit Labour costs, had steadily worsened after joining the euro.

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第二季度工人的劳动生产力以及单位时间产出量都有所上升，并超过了平均水平6个百分点，开始走出衰退的阴影。这对于经济下滑的大环境来说是正常的，但这意味着薪资还有更多的上升空间。

The productivity of workers, the amount produced per hour of work, shot up at an annual rate of more than 6 percent in the second quarter and has been climbing throughout the recession.

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第二季度工人的劳动生产力以及单位时间产出量都有所上升，并超过了平均水平6个百分点，开始走出衰退的阴影。这对于经济下滑的大环境来说是正常的，但这意味着薪资还有更多的上升空间。

The productivity of workers, the amount produced per hour of work, shot up at an annual rate of more than 6 percent in the second quarter and has been climbing throughout the recession.

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