In sharp contrast, the corresponding expected income DI in the United States always remains positive and has recently risen to around 40 percent (Chart 5).
Moreover, in the United States, the year-on-year rate of change in (household) expected income over the next year (median) has started to improve since around 2013 and since early 2015 has risen to around 1.5 percent – after having dropped from around 2.5 percent before the global financial crisis to a low of around 0.5 percent in 2009–2012 (Chart 6).