Publications

Table Main Economic Indicators 2017-2020 of the upcoming Macro Economic Outlook 2020 (up to and including 2020), to be published on 17 September 2019. →

This paper develops a stylized model that can serve as an instrument to assess how long term trends as demographic change and rising living standards affect the optimal future rise of the statutory retirement age (sra)... →

We typically do not find statistically signicant evidence of bunching around kinks or notches, neither in income nor in wealth. →

Do households diminish their wealth during retirement? The life-cycle model by Modigliani and Brumberg (1954) suggests they do, but the empirical evidence in the literature does not support this hypothesis. →

The Dutch economic growth rate is slowing down due to the ill wind blowing from abroad. Export growth is declining. The waning growth in production has had remarkably little impact on the labour market, which remains... →

On average, migrant children in the Netherlands end up lower in the income distribution compared to native children, even if their parents have equal incomes. →