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Eurozone Rental Markets Are Pricing Out Young Workers
On this episode of The European Economy Podcast, Lucas and Luna examine how the eurozone's rental housing crunch is reshaping labor mobility and wage demands. With rents in cities like Berlin and Madrid up sharply since 2021, young workers are spending over a third of their income on housing, pushing the ECB to factor shelter costs into its inflation forecasts. They discuss new data from the European Central Bank that shows rental inflation has outpaced overall inflation for two years, the rise of co-living as a corporate perk, and what this means for the ECB's next policy moves…
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