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Consider the claims – rampant nowadays in the US – that further government attempts to alleviate unemployment will fail, because America’s current high unemployment is “structural”: a failure of economic calculation has left the country with the wrong productive resources to satisfy household and business demand.
It is a predictable result of the recession and slow recovery that have left millions of Americans without health insurance and dampened household spending.
Given long-term constraints on both fiscal and household spending in the wake of the financial crisis and downward pressure on asset prices, the sustainability of such an employment trend is questionable.
The competitiveness of their industries, and consumers’ household budgets, suffer accordingly.
He found that in 1940, nearly all young Americans – 90% of them, to be precise – had a household income higher than their parents had when they were young.
WASHINGTON, DC – Information technology is not just transforming markets; it is also making them ubiquitous, particularly for household consumers.
Part of the segmentation of online markets involves web companies testing price points to estimate precisely the demand curve and its links to household characteristics.
Indeed, by the early 2000s, more than four-fifths of an average North Korean’s household income comprised unofficial earnings from market activities.
Moreover, the data on personal saving suggest somewhat fewer vulnerabilities and more resilience in the household sector.
Far more important, the extra income was not matched by newfound household spending.
The revision of data for household spending patterns lends support to the economic outlook.
Electricity, the automobile, airplane, air conditioning, and household appliances altered the way that ordinary people live in fundamental ways.
Fiscal austerity and ultra-low interest rates have also proven ineffective at stimulating household demand – and they may be backfiring.
Indeed, it has already created a detailed strategy to cut household gas consumption by more than half, with the goal of dispersing the corrupt gas monopoly of Naftogaz and ending Ukraine’s energy dependence on Russia.
That might seem widely beneficial, but it would help only those in high enough tax brackets to itemize deductions – mostly households with annual income above $75,000 (median US household income was $54,462 in 2015).
This requires us to integrate the various aspects of water management, such as household supply, rainwater harvesting, wastewater treatment and recycling, and flood-control measures.
Argentina’s per capita income has risen, albeit slowly, during this period, but the country was never far from a full-blown macroeconomic crisis that could reduce household incomes sharply.
The trend for household consumption is less clear.
But many economists have found evidence that growth in household consumption in the first half of 2012 was stronger than official statistics have shown.
Indoor spraying remains the most widely used method of household insect control worldwide.
But this is hardly a trivial development for low-income families in the developing world, where the share of foodstuffs in household budgets – 46% in India and 33% in China – is 2-3 times the ratio in developed countries.
And, because the country’s new leadership – which is conservative, gradualist, and consensus-driven – is unlikely to speed up implementation of reforms needed to increase household income and reduce precautionary saving, consumption as a share of GDP will not rise fast enough to compensate.
Median household income, adjusted for inflation, remains below its level a quarter-century ago.
Soaring food and fuel prices and major natural disasters played an important role in undermining financial markets, household purchasing power, and even political stability.
Meanwhile, increased fiscal expenditure on social welfare could help reduce high household savings rates, supporting the necessary shift to a more consumption-driven economy.
In particular, owing to the hukou (China’s antiquated household registration system), access to public services and benefits is not portable.
Even as penniless graduate students, the economists Jon Steinsson and Emi Nakamura borrowed money to pay people to do their household chores, calculating that “spending an extra hour working on a paper was better for their lifetime expected earnings than spending that same hour vacuuming.”
The sharp fall in house prices that followed caused a dramatic downturn in household wealth, leading to lower consumer spending and an overall fall in GDP.
By now, wealth in the form of owner-occupied housing is down about 30%, equivalent to a loss of more than $6 trillion of household wealth.
In addition, high loan-to-value ratios in the US interact with household financial problems to increase the number of defaults and foreclosures.
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