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Assessing the slack in the euro-zone’s labour market

The euro-zone’s labour market has held up much better than anybody had anticipated over the past year. But the amount of slack in the market is still greater than it was before the pandemic hit. Accordingly, wage growth is likely to remain subdued even as economic activity recovers.

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