FRANKFURT AM MAIN: German workers enjoyed a strong increase in wages for the third year in a row in 2016, official data showed Wednesday, in news likely to be welcomed by the European Central Bank.

Real wage growth stood at 1.8 percent last year, the federal statistics authority Destatis said in a statement, confirming preliminary results released in February.

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