High labor costs, but unrivalled German infrastructure "Such high costs to the employer are a major drawback in Germany, but the tightly woven net of suppliers, services and high tech research, which supports the industrial core is unrivalled here,"
"Such high costs to the employer are a major drawback in Germany, but the tightly woven net of suppliers, services and high tech research, which supports the industrial core is unrivalled here,"
Countries like Germany and Japan which have invested in workers and facilities are going to have a natural advantage to those like the US which have dismantled their industrial capibility and invested "cost savings" in militarism and cronyism.
Just because the quality of local relationships can't be measured with a neat single number doesn't mean those relationships aren't a huge influence on the bottom line.