In the policy debate on increasing the statutory retirement age, the issue has been raised to make an exception for workers with demanding occupations, since health considerations may make it unreasonable to expect them to work longer. →
This paper first confronts the observed aggregate retirement pattern in the Netherlands with predictions of traditional economic models of retirement. →
This paper uses pooled VAR forecasts to evaluate the contribution of world trade growth data to forecast accuracy for GDP growth and export growth for the Netherlands, a small-open economy. →