在失业率下降的同时经济增长速度放慢意味着生产率(工人每小时的生产量)增长速度正在减慢。
The drop in the jobless rate at the same time as the economy is slowing implies that the growth in productivity-the amount workers produce in an hour-is waning.
虽然与新兴国家如韩国相比,西班牙的每小时劳动生产率仍然领先,但是差距一直在缩小。
Though Spain still holds a big advantage in labor productivity over an up-and-coming country like South Korea, the gap is closing.
很长一段时间以来,欧元区需要两样东西:首先是它有更多的人从事工作,其次则是他们的生产率(每小时产出)增长的更快。
For a long time, the euro area has needed two things: first, that more of its people work; second, that their productivity (ie, output per hour) rises faster.
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