OECD Economic Surveys: Netherlands 2012
OECD Publishing, June 2012, Pages: 128
The government is facing both short- and long-term challenges
The economy is expected to emerge from the recent weakness in the course of 2012. As the recovery gathers pace, a major task for the government will be to maintain its fiscal consolidation efforts, which are necessary to restore fiscal sustainability.
In the longer term, the government is faced with the challenge of ensuring that the economy continues to benefit from globalisation, which requires efforts in adjusting business sector and labour market policies (the subjects of Chapters 1 and 2, respectively). The government also needs to prepare the economy for population ageing by expanding the revenue base by extending working lives, mobilising underutilised labour resources and containing pension and health care costs. The last requires a cost-efficient health sector, which the government is promoting via more competition (Chapter 3).
OECD's 2012 survey of the Dutch economy examines recent economic developments, policies and prospects and takes a special look at harvesting the benefits of globalisation, the labour market, and health care reform.
Executive summary
Assessment and recommendations
The government is facing both short- and long-term challenges
Sizeable fiscal consolidation is under way
Globalisation and policies for the business sector
Preparing the labour market for further globalisation and population ageing
Promoting competition and cost control in the health care sector
Bibliography
Annex A1 Progress in structural reform
Chapter 1 Reforming policies for the business sector to harvest the benefits
of globalisation
The benefits and challenges of globalisation
Benefiting from globalisation by strengthening the business environment
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 2 The Dutch labour market: Preparing for the future
The effect of globalisation on labour demand
Policies to foster labour mobility
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 3 Health care reform and long-term care in the Netherlands
Performance of the health care system
The health care sector was substantially reformed in the second half of the 2000s
The next wave of reform
Population ageing will put pressure on a costly long-term care system
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Boxes
1 Correcting external imbalances via structural reform
2 Mortgage indebtedness of households
3 The Spring 2012 fiscal consolidation package
4 Global warming and flood protection
5 The ambitiousness of the Dutch social model induces high ageing costs
6 Main fiscal policy recommendations
7 Main business sector policy recommendations
8 Main labour market recommendations
9 Main health policy recommendations
11 The port of Rotterdam and the surge in re-exports
12 New policies for the business sector
13 Top Consortia for Knowledge and Innovation (TKIs)
14 The design of R&D tax credits
15 Reducing red tape
16 Recommendations to strengthen the business environment
21 Wage bargaining and a shift to decentralisation
22 Life-long learning incentives
23 Polices to attract high-skilled workers
24 Integrating the disabled in the labour market
25 Recommendations to support labour reallocation and activation of underutilised labour resources
31 Mental health care reform – a step too far?
32 Will the organisation of GPs into primary care groups improve cost-efficiency?
33 Main reform measures in the hospital sector 2012-15
34 A comprehensive public long-term care system
35 The decentralisation of home help has improved cost-efficiency
36 The government’s reform agenda for long-term care
37 Recommendations to promote a more efficient and competitive health sector
Tables
1 Demand, output and prices
2 Households’ mortgage debt
3 Public and private age-related spending
11 Foreign controlled enterprise activity
12 The main dates in the formulation of the new policies of the business sector
13 Tax measures to foster innovative activities (main features per scheme)
14 Top 10 problematic factors for doing business in the Netherlands
21 Workers covered by collective agreements
22 Lowest collective agreement wage per age category
31 Mortality rates of infants and mortality by leading causes
32 Private spending as a share of total health expenditure
33 Public expenditures for health care and long-term care
34 Public health care expenditure (ZVW) by category
35 Profitability of health insurance
36 Concentration of the health insurance market
37 Expenditures on curative mental care covered by ZVW
38 Changes in negotiated average prices in the hospital segment B
39 Remuneration, as ratio to average wage in each country
310 General practitioners and specialists per 1 000 population
Figures
1 Short-term economic indicators
2 Labour market developments
3 The average funding ratio and share of pension funds with a funding ratio below the legal minimum
4 Interest rate and housing prices developments
5 Competitiveness indicators
6 Dutch export performance in selected commodities
7 Labour productivity growth
8 The fiscal stance is pro-cyclical in 2012
9 Imbalances in the euro area countries
10 Sustainability gaps in European countries
11 Public debt path before and after the crisis
12 Population ageing
13 Average total pension
14 Modest exports to emerging markets
15 Job mobility is low
16 Health care cost now and in 2060
11 Openness has increased
12 Competitiveness indicators
13 Re-exports have surged
14 Export performance to the emerging economies
15 Modest exports to emerging markets
16 Relatively high in- and outward FDI
17 Private R&D spending is low
18 Services exports specialised in professional business, communication as well as royalties
19 The share of graduates with a science or engineering degree is low
110 High explicit barriers to trade and investment in emerging markets
111 Dutch R&D tax incentives have strong SME focus
112 Business R&D by size class of firms
113 Excellent research system but mediocre business linkages
114 Venture capital market is relatively small
115 Administrative burdens on start-up
116 Entry regulation for a selection of sectors
117 Fast growing (innovative SME) enterprises
21 Labour market indicators
22 Beveridge curve
23 Employment shifts to knowledge intensive services
24 Employment of high-skilled workers increased
25 Wage dispersion is relatively small
26 Labour productivity growth
27 Population ageing
28 Job mobility is low
29 Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) for workers with permanent contracts remains high
210 High tenure premia for men
211 Unit labour costs have increased relatively fast
212 Immigrants in high-skill jobs
213 High incidence of female part-time employment
214 Low average annual hours actually worked per worker
215 The average retirement age is increasing
216 The number of disability recipients remains high
31 Life expectancy indicators
32 Health risks
33 The Netherlands has high health expenditures
34 Health care consultations and hospital resource use
35 Health care resources
36 Expenditure on outpatient prescription drugs
37 Main features of the envisaged reorganisation of the long-term care system
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