Kingdom of the Netherlands - Netherlands: Selected Issues

IMF Staff Country Reports, August 26, 1996

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• Published: August 26, 1996
• Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451829303.002

Pension expenditures and indexing

• The public pension for a single person is equal to 70 percent of the (statutory) minimum wage.
• The minimum wage and public pensions move in lock-step; they are both by law indexed to contract wages in the private sector.

Structural policies examined

• The paper examines structural policies of the Netherlands with a focus on implications for pension expenditures.
• Sectoral and policy frameworks relevant to pension sustainability are analyzed (details in the full paper).

Real wages and employment growth

• Real wages and employment growth are analyzed in the paper, with attention to interactions between wage indexing and labor market outcomes.

Publication and scope

• Pages: 86
• Issue: 080
• Series: Country Report No. 1996/080
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451829303.002
• ISBN: 9781451829303
• Publication date: August 26, 1996

Source: Kingdom of the Netherlands - Netherlands: Selected Issues, IMF Staff Country Reports (1996/080).