Kingdom of the Netherlands—Netherlands Selected Issues

August 8, 2003

Summary

The Selected Issues paper of the Netherlands provides an overview of the Dutch pension system. It examines the strengths and weaknesses of the existing bargaining model, compares the Dutch wage bargaining in different periods, examines the past macroeconomic performance of the Netherlands, addresses the issues of wage dispersion and differentiation, and discusses future prospects and challenges for the bargaining model. It also estimates the potential growth in the Netherlands, using statistical detrending methods.

Subject: Expenditure, Labor, Labor costs, Labor demand, Pension spending, Pensions, Wages

Keywords: Apel-Jansson estimation, company pension plans, CR, Europe, Global, HP filter, internal rate of return, ISCR, Labor costs, Labor demand, multivariate method, Pension spending, Pensions, wage, Wages

Pages:
44
Volume:
2003
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451829457.002
Issue:
240
Series:
Country Report No. 2003/240
Stock No:
1NLDEA0022003
ISBN:
9781451829457
ISSN:
1934-7685

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