Netherlands: Selected Issues

August 18, 1997

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Netherlands: Selected Issues, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1997) accessed November 21, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper examines Netherlands’ experience with macroeconomic and structural reforms. The reforms, which were introduced gradually and in a consultative manner, were comprehensive in their coverage. They included a credible monetary policy, based on a tight link to the deutsche mark; expenditure-based fiscal consolidation, which allowed reduction of the tax burden as well as the fiscal deficit; and measures to stimulate both the supply and the demand side of the labor market. The labor market and associated social security reforms focused on measures to strengthen labor supply as well as labor demand.

Subject: Employment, Labor, Labor markets, Labor share, Real wages, Wages

Keywords: CR, Deutsche mark, Disability benefit, Employment, Employment growth, Europe, Exchange rate, Fiscal policy, ISCR, Labor market, Labor markets, Labor share, Monetary policy, National minimum wage, Real wage, Real wages, Wage dispersion, Wage gap, Wage moderation, Wages

Publication Details

Pages:

117
Volume:

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Series:

Country Report No. 1997/069
Stock No:

1NLDEA0011997
ISBN:

9781451829310
ISSN:

1934-7685

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