Pension plans and the retirement replacement rates in the Netherlands

Mark van Duijn, Maarten Lindeboom, Mauro Mastrogiacomo and Petter Lundborg

No 118, CPB Discussion Paper from CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis

Abstract: This study compares the expected retirement replacement rates of several cohorts of Dutch employees at the time of their planned retirement with the 'actual' replacement rates based on available pension records. We find that using reasonable indexation rates, the expected replacement rates are higher than the one we compute. Larger discrepancies are found for younger cohorts. We decompose the difference between the expected and 'actual' replacement rates and find that the mismatch is related to poor institutional knowledge for the whole sample. We also show the role of assumptions on institutions and on wage profiles in determining our results.

JEL-codes: D83 D84 J2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-01
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