Percent change in manufacturing unit labor costs (U.S. dollar basis), 1997 United States -1.0 Canada -1.6 Japan -12.7 Korea -19.4 Taiwan -5.6 Belgium -16.4 Denmark -11.3 France -15.6 Germany -16.2 Italy -7.5 Norway -5.3 Sweden -14.1 United Kingdom 8.0