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  "title": "Kingdom of the Netherlands—Netherlands Selected Issues",
  "publication": "IMF Staff Country Reports, August 8, 2003",
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  "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",
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      "heading": "Overview",
      "content": "- The Selected Issues paper provides an overview of the Dutch pension system and analyzes the existing bargaining model.\n- Publication date: August 8, 2003.\n- Series and identifiers:\n  - Pages: 44\n  - Volume: 2003\n  - Issue: 240\n  - Series: Country Report No. 2003/240\n  - DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451829457.002\n  - Stock No: 1NLDEA0022003\n  - ISBN: 9781451829457\n  - ISSN: 1934-7685"
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      "heading": "Pension system and bargaining model",
      "content": "- Findings:\n  - Provides an overview of the Dutch pension system.\n  - Examines strengths and weaknesses of the existing bargaining model.\n- Themes addressed:\n  - Company pension plans\n  - Internal rate of return\n  - Pension spending\n  - Pensions"
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      "heading": "Wage bargaining and labor markets",
      "content": "- Findings:\n  - Compares Dutch wage bargaining in different periods.\n  - Addresses wage dispersion and differentiation.\n- Subject keywords related to labor and wages:\n  - Expenditure, Labor, Labor costs, Labor demand, Wages\n  - Labor costs, Labor demand, wage, Wages\n  - Multivariate method, Apel-Jansson estimation, HP filter, ISCR"
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      "heading": "Macroeconomic performance and potential growth",
      "content": "- Analysis:\n  - Examines past macroeconomic performance of the Netherlands.\n  - Estimates potential growth using statistical detrending methods.\n- Methods and keywords:\n  - HP filter, statistical detrending, multivariate method"
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      "content": "- 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\n\nInternational Monetary Fund. \"Kingdom of the Netherlands—Netherlands Selected Issues\", IMF Staff Country Reports 2003, 240 (2003), accessed 9/13/2026, https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451829457.002\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Kingdom of the Netherlands-Netherlands: Selected Issues - ISCR/03/240\n  - Kingdom of the Netherlands-Netherlands: Selected Issues - ISCR/03/240 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Kingdom of the Netherlands-Netherlands: Selected Issues - ISCR/03/240 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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