Publications

Pension premium rates and pension benefits are independent of age or family situation in the second pillar of the Dutch pension system. In a life cycle model calibrated on Dutch data we investigate the optimal... →

Economic recovery in sight, but coronavirus effects linger on. In the baseline projections the economy is expected to grow by over 2% in 2021 and 3.5% in 2022. →

Banks often demand collateral for business loans. Apart from business assets, for many small entrepreneurs their own home is the most important security they can offer. The interaction between the housing market and... →

The report, 'Charted Choices' provides an overview of the budgetary and economic consequences of the policy choices made by 10 Dutch political parties. →

People with low digital skills relatively often do not have a paid job, and if they do, they earn a relatively low hourly wage. Those are the most important findings of CPB research based on a newly constructed dataset combining digital skills with labor market outcomes. →

The trade literature often treats countries as dimensionless points, which is a strong assumption. Agglomeration or lumpiness of production factors within countries can affect the national pattern of trade.... →

The Dutch notitie “Ongelijkheid van het jonge kind” documents and discusses differences in achievement across various (socio-economic) groups in the Netherlands. The empirical results are based on data from the... →

Economy will recover in 2021, provided coronavirus is under control →

Large and persistent differences in labour market participation by migration background. →

As long as there have been taxes, people have tried to avoid and evade them. Interest in these phenomena has been fueled by the effects on public revenues, as well as on the distribution of wealth and income.... →