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Compared with Germany, Austria's main trading partner, relative unit labour costs also worsened (+3.2 percentage points). The development relative to the trade-weighted partner average is driven mainly by weaker productivity performance combined with unfavourable exchange rate movements. Relative to Germany and Western Europe, the deterioration is primarily due to more dynamic growth in compensation of employees. Over the past five years, unit labour costs in domestic manufacturing grew by 0.8 percentage points per year faster than the average of all trading partners, and by 1.5 and 1.7 percentage points faster than in Germany and Western Europe, respectively. 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