Kingdom of the Netherlands—Netherlands Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund

No 2003/240, IMF Staff Country Reports from International Monetary Fund

Abstract: 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 the issues of wage dispersion and differentiation, and discusses future prospects and challenges for the bargaining model. It also estimates the potential growth in the Netherlands, using statistical detrending methods.

Keywords: ISCR; CR; wage; HP filter; multivariate method; Apel-Jansson estimation; company pension plans; internal rate of return; Pension spending; Wages; Labor costs; Pensions; Labor demand; Europe; Global (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 44
Date: 2003-08-08
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