Last year's 10 percent rise in labor costs was more than South Korea's 8.9 percent and far more than the United States '2.1. A higher standard of living means, necessarily, higher costs for everybody.
工資方面，我國去年由於勞工荒，使製造業工資上漲了百分之十，比美國的百分之二．一、韓國的百分之八．九都高，因此去年進口的原料價格下跌，但消費者買到的商品價格卻漲了。