German firms reacted by outsourcing the labor-intensive parts of their production chains and curtailing their investment in Germany. The share of net investment in GNP is now the second lowest in all OECD countries.
由此，德国公司将他们生产流线中的劳力密集部分外包个给其它国家，并减少他们在国内的投资。在经济合作发展组织（OECD）国家中，现在德国GNP中净投资所占的比例名列倒数第二。由于投资过低，德国的净资本出口只占GDP的约4%。