## Kingdom of the Netherlands - Netherlands: Selected Issues

_IMF Staff Country Reports, August 26, 1996_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: August 26, 1996
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451829303.002

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### 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).*

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