Koopkrachtvoorspellingen involving a lot of people irritated. So, get on a forum NUjij a lot of comments about the Jan Average, which, according to readers, is becoming increasingly more difficult to make ends meet. That is at odds with the positive koopkrachtpercentages the government each year presented. It is in the wallets of many people in the netherlands narrower?

at First, just a misunderstanding. It is obvious that no one is right, you can recognize the koopkrachtcijfers. And, don’t be alarmed – Jan-Modal ” does not exist.

“In the prediction is assumed to be a modelpersoon, and the static purchasing power, explains:” they are the chief economist Menno Middeldorp of. “It means that it is assumed that there are no further changes, but things such as promotion, layoff, or a separation of the purchasing power, and have much more influence over public policy.”

in Addition, the growth rate of the economy as a whole is bigger than a lot of people it marks, shall, Marike Knoef, professor of empirical micro-economics at the University of Leiden. “So, I can sort of understand where the feelings are coming from.” In 2017 were Dutch, 5% more in purchasing power than in 2008, according to the Dutch Central Bureau for Statistics (CBS) before it. “You can feel it very much in the pocket.”

The definition of get has been changed to

, However, is the notion of ‘making do’ is subjective, ” says Knoef. “The expectations of people have changed. Hear the holidays or not? The definition of living varies depending on what you’re used to.”

What is certain is that the poverty threshold. In the netherlands is low, and the so-called low-income in 2017 for a single person to 1.040 euro, as a single parent, at 1.380 euro for a couple with two children at 1.960 per month. The proportion of households with low incomes fluctuated, but it dropped eventually in the period 2000 to 2017 however, from 11.8 to 8.2 percent.

“it is especially for those who need arrangements, it is difficult for them to ask questions.”

Marike Knoef, associate professor, University of Leiden
The koopkrachtontwikkeling that of the poorest 10 per cent in the Netherlands dropped between 2012 and 2018, with a more negative view than those on higher incomes, ” says Knoef. “That would be set up to do that at that time I tried to make work pay, to make. At the bottom of the income distribution are in a greater proportion of people will benefit.”

in A sea of fees, surcharges, rebates and discounts, it won’t help with
All of the koopkrachtcijfers is not a “Joe Average” out to the press, the government continues, however, to be essential to consider it and try to present a positive image to all. The politicians are the numbers down, it’s because they’re like a promise, will be presented. As long as it takes to rotate the pistons until there is a paper for all of the groups that is a plus to see it, that’s how it is at this moment. Not a good state of affairs, many economists are.

This is, after all, a forest of fees and discounts), and hence, an increasingly complex tax system, and as a result. “On the one hand, you want people to help out with the fees, and the like – which is good,” says Knoef about it. “On the other hand, it is just for the people who are in such arrangements, it is the hardest to get their tax form to fill out.”

“I’m an economist not easy,” adds Middeldorp on. “In this way, the rules are not claimed because people do not know about it.”

Appears on the koopkrachtcijfers

apart from the growing complexity of the political, according to Middeldorp do not think about the fact that a focus on the positive koopkrachtcijfers only appears to offer. “And, if the estimate is not real security, so why would you on them.”

by 2018, predicted the Central Planning bureau (CPB) in the netherlands, for example, on the basis of the government’s policy, and the economic growth of a koopkrachtstijging of 0.6 per cent for the average household. In retrospect, it was concluded by statistics netherlands (CBS ultimately, however, only an increase of 0.3% was obtained.

That figure, however, it applies to the average: the middle house. “Half of the households had more and half had less than koopkrachtstijging,” says Middeldorp time. “That would explain the reactions of so many people in such numbers is a big part of to see it again.”

“Some people want to be on the market, it is not to be included in a koopkrachtcijfer.”

Menno Middeldorp, they are the chief economist ‘However, people are stuck” < / p> Which also doesn’t help the image of the purchasing power, the shortage on the housing market, ” says the economist. “If there is one place in the economy where people are tight, it is in the real estate market.”

“a few people in the housing market, and would like to achieve, however, is not to be included in a koopkrachtcijfer. A person may want to buy a home, a good income, but are stuck in a rented accommodation in the private sector. Rent is so high that there is no room to spare. This contributes to the feeling that you can go no further.”

Also, the increasing government expenditure on, for example, in the care, mean that the purchasing power is not really increasing, ” says professor Knoef. “A significant portion of economic growth is the government’s opgesnoept. Those amounts are useful, but they have the money, and that people are free to spend it.”

“purchasing power parity, is close to the welfare-to-eye,” the decision Middeldorp. “People need to feel that they have no grip on their lives, and that needs to change.” He joins a professor of economics with Barbara Baarsma, who was recently in the Dutch newspaper NRC wrote that the politics need to stop with the koopkrachtknutselen after the decimal point. To bet on education, job opportunities, and resilience in the event of dismissal, it is the better.

Middeldorp: “The government will, unfortunately, not saying that their purchasing power will always be secure, but it can help to make them better, easier to manoeuvre, and in this way the set-backs to deal with that.”

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