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An income gap theory and its effects on unemployment and economic growth
De Koning, Kees - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
An Income Gap Theory and it effects on Unemployment and Economic Growth By Drs Kees De Koning Abstract An income gap is …
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The United States: An Economic Balance Sheet Analysis
De Koning, Kees - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The U.S financial crisis started in October 2005. The level of new home starts would have replaced the total owner occupied housing stock in 37 years. Much faster than desirable. Mortgage interest rates also went up in same month. In 2006 mortgage lending went on unabated, but housing values did...
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About winners and losers: the Euro Area example
De Koning, Kees - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
In economic life, like in all walks of life, there are always winners and losers. The losers are the unemployed, often the young, the low-income earners, the individual households who lose their home due to repossession for non-payment of debt, the households who have no or a low savings level...
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The evil force of borrowing and the weakness of Quantitative Easing
De Koning, Kees - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
The U.S. housing market crash in 2007-2008 was not caused overnight by an over-supply of new homes that could not be sold. It was caused by the new money flows into mortgages ever since 1998. What changed in 1998 was that mortgage funds were not only used for building new homes at a price in...
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Debt, equity and income: the limits to the freedom of choice in an economy
De Koning, Kees - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
, increased unemployment which led to a slower combined income growth, lower labour force participation rates again leading to …
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The world's dream, economic growth revisited
De Koning, Kees - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Financial sector companies are different from those in the real sector. In the real sector the price for consumer goods and services is a price reflecting all costs which have been made to produce the output. Profits reflect the difference between the sales price and the costs base. The...
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The United Kingdom: Economic Growth, a Draft Master Plan
De Koning, Kees - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The U.K.’s recent economic developments can be broken down in two distinct periods. The period 2002-2008 was the period in which economic growth was satisfactory and individual households’ wages and salaries were increasing at a level higher than inflation rates. It was also the period that...
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Financial crisis, economic crisis and individual households' income and savings crisis
De Koning, Kees - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The world’s financial crisis happened in 2008, but the U.S. individual households’ income and savings crisis happened before that: the latter one was already at crisis point in 2005 and 2006. The key of any analysis about the households’ income and savings crisis should start with the...
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The real financial crisis: an individual households' crisis The case for index-linked government bonds for the Netherlands, the U.S. and the U.K.
De Koning, Kees - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
sector -yes banks and others financial institutions were affected by their own induced excessive lending schemes- but no, it …
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Structural unemployment
Herz, Benedikt; Rens, Thijs van - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2011
Structural unemployment is due to mismatch between available jobs and workers. We formalize this concept in a simple … costs across segments generate structural unemployment. We estimate the contribution of these costs to fluctuations in US … unemployment, operationalizing segments as states or industries. Most structural unemployment is due to wage bargaining costs …
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