Private real estate investors have benefited greatly from tighter mortgage debt limits for homebuyers, as a portion of house seekers could no longer buy properties and had to rent in the free sector housing instead. By 2018, a household earning twice the modal income could allocate only 24 percent of its gross income to mortgage costs, a decrease from 36.8 …
The wealthiest Netherlands residents don't pay the most taxes. But the 1 percent highest earners only spend 21 percent of their income on taxes - less than the lowest earners, NRC reports based on a new study by central planning office CPB. "The fact that top incomes pay a lot less tax is a new outcome," CPB tax economist Arjan …
Since the financial crisis of 2008, the labor participation of young men has decreased more and more. Men under the age of 25 started studying longer, and men 25 to 44 faced various setbacks in the aftermath of the financial crisis, central planning office CPB said. "Some were forced to work in another sector, but there are also young men …
