TY  - JOUR
AU  - Kapteyn,Arie
AU  - Vos,Klaas de
TI  - Social Security and Retirement in The Netherlands
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 6135
PY  - 1997
Y2  - August 1997
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w6135
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w6135.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Arie Kapteyn
RAND Corporation
1776 Main Street
P.O. Box 2138
Santa Monica, CA  90407-2138
Tel: (310) 393-0411 x 7973
E-Mail: arie_kapteyn@rand.org

Klaas de Vos
CentERdata
Tilburg University
Warandelaan 2
5037 AB Tilburg THE NETHERLANDS
E-Mail: K.deVos@uvt.nl
M1  - published as Arie Kapteyn, Klaas de Vos. "Social Security and Retirement in the Netherlands," in Jonathan Gruber and David A. Wise, editors, "Social Security and Retirement around the World" University of Chicago Press (1999)

AB  - Compared to other industrialized countries, the labor force participation of the elderly in the Netherlands is very low. Moreover, it has fallen very fast over recent years.  We discuss the incentives for employees to retire, arising from public schemes such as social security and disability insurance, and from private arrangements, such as early retirement and occupational pensions.  In general, the generous replacement rates offered by these schemes act as powerful stimuli for retirement.  Although Dutch research into the retirement effects of the earnings replacing schemes for the elderly was limited until the early nineties, there is now a fast growing literature on this.  This literature confirms the findings in the current paper.
ER  -