Life almost fifty percent become more expensive

That reported Statistics Netherlands (CBS) Wednesday. For café visit, apartment rental or a short bus ride to counting down the Dutch nearly 60 percent more than in 1996. Food and beverages, washing machines or bicycles are more than 30 percent in price increased that services is so much more has to do with labor costs.

Those forms are usually the main cost to service providers. Labour costs per hour worked increased in 20 years time with thick 72 percent. Tax and excise duty increases, but especially the prices of goods.

Exception there are exceptions. So its services in the field of communication in twenty years time become cheaper. Phone use and internet, for example, fell in price. Automobile dealers-used cars were even a quarter cheaper.

On average, the life compared with twenty years back about 45 percent become more expensive, according to the calculations of the CBS. That works out to an inflation of an average of 1.9% per year.

Prices have risen, wages That is not to say that people's lives can no longer pay. The wage increases in Netherlands are also in a higher gear. Since the end of 2009, the increased salaries not as hard as in the first quarter of this year.

The salaries increased over the first three months of 2016 with an average 1.8% compared to a year earlier. Since the second half of 2014 is the average collective bargaining wage increase higher than inflation.

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