## Kingdom of the Netherlands—Netherlands Selected Issues

_IMF Staff Country Reports, August 8, 2003_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: August 8, 2003
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451829457.002

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### Overview
- The Selected Issues paper provides an overview of the Dutch pension system and analyzes the existing bargaining model.
- Publication date: August 8, 2003.
- Series and identifiers:
  - Pages: 44
  - Volume: 2003
  - Issue: 240
  - Series: Country Report No. 2003/240
  - DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451829457.002
  - Stock No: 1NLDEA0022003
  - ISBN: 9781451829457
  - ISSN: 1934-7685

### Pension system and bargaining model
- Findings:
  - Provides an overview of the Dutch pension system.
  - Examines strengths and weaknesses of the existing bargaining model.
- Themes addressed:
  - Company pension plans
  - Internal rate of return
  - Pension spending
  - Pensions

### Wage bargaining and labor markets
- Findings:
  - Compares Dutch wage bargaining in different periods.
  - Addresses wage dispersion and differentiation.
- Subject keywords related to labor and wages:
  - Expenditure, Labor, Labor costs, Labor demand, Wages
  - Labor costs, Labor demand, wage, Wages
  - Multivariate method, Apel-Jansson estimation, HP filter, ISCR

### Macroeconomic performance and potential growth
- Analysis:
  - Examines past macroeconomic performance of the Netherlands.
  - Estimates potential growth using statistical detrending methods.
- Methods and keywords:
  - HP filter, statistical detrending, multivariate method

### Key thematic keywords (as provided)
- 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

*International 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*

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