TY  - JOUR
AU  - Vos,Klaas de
AU  - Kapteyn,Arie
AU  - Kalwij,Adriaan
TI  - Disability Insurance and Labor Market Exit Routes of Older Workers in The Netherlands
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 17053
PY  - 2011
Y2  - May 2011
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w17053
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w17053.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Klaas de Vos
CentERdata
Tilburg University
Warandelaan 2
5037 AB Tilburg THE NETHERLANDS
E-Mail: K.deVos@uvt.nl

Arie Kapteyn
12015 Waterfront Drive
Playa Vista, CA 90094-2536
Tel: 310/448-5383
E-Mail: kapteyn@usc.edu

Adriaan Kalwij
Utrecht University School of Economics
Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging and Retirem
E-Mail: a.s.kalwij@uu.nl
M3  - presented at "International Social Security Conference", May 2, 2011
AB  - This paper presents information on labor market participation of the elderly, mortality and health, pathways to retirement and rates of participation in various earnings replacing programs in the Netherlands. It presents an overview of reforms to Disability Insurance (DI) and other income maintenance and early retirement programs over the past few decades, and examines to what extent these reforms have affected labor market exit routes of older workers. The overall picture that emerges is that DI receipt appears unrelated to the general health of the population and that over the last two decades relatively fewer older workers exit the labor market through DI. This reduction may, arguably, in part be attributed to stricter DI eligibility rules.
ER  -