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Two modules of the microsimulation model NEDYMAS are presented: the demographic module and the education module. After a description of the ins and outs of microsimulation, both modules are presented. Next both modules are used to reconstruct the past and to generate the future Dutch household structure and the level of education of the Dutch population. Standard deviations are also shown for the year 1981.

Lifetime income redistribution by the old-age state pension in The NetherlandsNelissen, J.H.M. General rightsCopyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights.-Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research -You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain -You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal Take down policyIf you believe that this document breaches copyright, please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. AbstractThis paper looks at how the Dutch General Old-Age Pensions Act impacts the distribution of equivalent lifetime income, using a dynamic cross-sectional microsimulation model. Considering both vertical and horizontal redistributional effects, the paper shows that lifetime redistribution is considerably smaller than the redistribution measured on the basis of a period approach. The horizontal lifetime redistribution is more important than the vertical one, but this effect is rather limited, in particular due to the increasing premium percentages in combination with the regressive nature of the contribution levying.

Transfers and the effect of monitoring in an overlapping-generations experiment van der Heijden, Eline; Nelissen, J.H.M.; Potters, Jan; Verbon, Harrie General rightsCopyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights.-Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research -You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain -You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright, please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. AbstractWe experimentally investigate the argument that the establishment and maintenance of an intergenerational transfer system is related to cross-generational monitoring. In our overlapping-generations experiment transfers are induced to be collectively efficient, but individually suboptimal. Varying the information conditions allows us to study the relationship between the level and development of voluntary transfers, on the one hand, and the possibility for cross-generational monitoring and rewarding and punishing, on the other hand. The experimental results give little support for the importance of monitoring, Nevertheless, a fairly efficient level of transfers is observed. The results suggest that the public good feature of the setting is more important than the bargaining feature, which would require intertemporal rewards and punishments. 0 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. JEL classification: C90; D63; H55

This paper discusses the redistributive impact of the Dutch social security system on lifetime basis. Net benefits appear to be positive for the birth generations up to 1960. Social insurances show a declining net benefit, whereas for occupational pensions the reverse holds. It is generally assumed that flat-rated social security schemes are more redistributive ones than wage-related schemes. However, the Dutch social security system shows that on a lifetime basis the redistributive impact of flat-rated general insurances does not necessarily largely differ from the wage-related employee insurances. Social assistance schemes result in a very large income redistribution in view of the small amounts involved. Social insurances and social assistance schemes have an income equalizing effect. On the contrary, occupational pensions increase income inequality.