A recent OECD study reminds us, once again, that per capita income levels are roughly 30% lower in the euro area, as well as in the three largest Continental countries – France, Germany, and Italy – that dominate its performance, than in the United States. That gap is likely to widen as Europe’s demographic profile darkens, and if productivity continues to grow more slowly than elsewhere in the industrial economies.
经合组织最近的一项研究提醒我们，欧元区以及统领欧元区经济表现的欧洲大陆最大的三个国家法国、德国和意大利的人均收入水平低于美国大约30％。随着欧洲人口构成恶化，而且如果生产效率与工业化经济体的其他地方相比继续更为缓慢地增长，这一差距有可能扩大。