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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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Does active labour market policy work? Lessons from the Swedish experiences
Calmfors, Lars; Forslund, Anders; Hemström, Maria - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2002
) have been used as a means to fight high unemployment. This paper discusses the mechanisms through which ALMPs affect (un)employment … open unemployment, but also reduced regular employment. The overall policy conclusion is that ALMPs of the scale used in …. There should be a greater emphasis on holding down long-term unemployment in general and a smaller emphasis on youth …
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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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Income support systems, labour supply incentives and employment – some cross-country evidence
Forslund, Anders; Fredriksson, Peter - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2009
This paper summarizes a set of expert reports commissioned by the IFAU. The expert reports cover Estonia, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. These countries represent range of welfare states, both in terms of scope and design. And in each country there are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008502566
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Labour supply incentives, income support systems and taxes in Sweden
Forslund, Anders - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2009
Comparing Sweden to other EU countries, labour force participation rates of older individuals and females are high. These facts are consistent with the idea that institutional design matters: access to child care, paid parental leave, and a tax system with individual rather than household income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008502572
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259129
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259435
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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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