IMF Staff Country Reports

Kingdom of the Netherlands - Netherlands: Selected Issues

August 26, 1996

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International Monetary Fund. "Kingdom of the Netherlands - Netherlands: Selected Issues", IMF Staff Country Reports 1996, 080 (1996), accessed 12/26/2025, https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451829303.002

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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