Kingdom of the Netherlands - Netherlands: Selected Issues

August 26, 1996

Summary

This Selected Issues paper examines the long-term issues with pension expenditures in the Netherlands. The paper highlights that the public pension for a single person is equal to 70 percent of the (statutory) minimum wage. The minimum wage and public pensions thus move in lock-step; they are both by law indexed to contract wages in the private sector. This paper examines the structural policies of the Netherlands. Real wages and employment growth are also analyzed.

Subject: Employment, Expenditure, Financial services, Labor, Pension spending, Pensions, Short term interest rates, Wages

Keywords: CR, Employment, employment creation, employment growth, government aim, ISCR, Koninklijke PTT Nederland, pension, Pension spending, Pensions, real wage, Short term interest rates, wage, wage growth, wage moderation, Wages

Pages:
86
Volume:
1996
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451829303.002
Issue:
080
Series:
Country Report No. 1996/080
Stock No:
1NLDEA0011996
ISBN:
9781451829303
ISSN:
1934-7685

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