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  "title": "Kingdom of the Netherlands - Netherlands: Selected Issues",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, August 26, 1996",
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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.",
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    {
      "heading": "Pension expenditures and indexing",
      "content": "- The public pension for a single person is equal to 70 percent of the (statutory) minimum wage.\n- The minimum wage and public pensions move in lock-step; they are both by law indexed to contract wages in the private sector."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Structural policies examined",
      "content": "- The paper examines structural policies of the Netherlands with a focus on implications for pension expenditures.\n- Sectoral and policy frameworks relevant to pension sustainability are analyzed (details in the full paper)."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Real wages and employment growth",
      "content": "- Real wages and employment growth are analyzed in the paper, with attention to interactions between wage indexing and labor market outcomes."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Publication and scope",
      "content": "- Pages: 86\n- Issue: 080\n- Series: Country Report No. 1996/080\n- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451829303.002\n- ISBN: 9781451829303\n- Publication date: August 26, 1996\n\nSource: Kingdom of the Netherlands - Netherlands: Selected Issues, IMF Staff Country Reports (1996/080)."
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    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451829303.002",
    "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.",
    "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 are analyzed in the paper, with attention to interactions between wage indexing and labor market outcomes.",
    "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"
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