When asked by Tony Blair for the secret of her country’s resilience, Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, said: “We still make things.” It is a question you often hear in the US nowadays. It would be an exaggeration to say Germany is back in fashion. There is too much disapproval of Berlin’s handling of the eurozone crisis for that. Yet when it comes to the labour market, the US is suffering from a rising case of “German envy”, as one analyst puts it.
當東尼•布萊爾(Tony Blair)問起德國經濟具有韌性(resilience)的祕訣時，德國總理安格拉•梅克爾(Angela Merkel)答道：「我們仍在製造東西。」如今在美國經常能聽到人們談論這個問題。說德國又變得喫香有些誇張，畢竟柏林方面處理歐元區危機的方式備受詬病。然而就勞動力市場而言，用一位分析師的話來說，美國患了越來越嚴重的「德國妒嫉症」。
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