Work Capacity and Longer Working Lives in Belgium
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Copyright 2017
ISBN 9780226442877

We explore the link between health indicators and employment rates of the population aged 55 or more. Our focus lies on work capacity as a key determinant of employment. Using cohort mortality information as a proxy for overall health outcomes, we establish a substantial untapped work capacity in the population 55+. Even stronger results are obtained when relying on individual-level objective and subjective health and socioeconomic parameters as predictors.
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Copy CitationAlain Jousten and Mathieu Lefebvre, Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World: The Capacity to Work at Older Ages (University of Chicago Press, 2017), chap. 1, https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/social-security-programs-and-retirement-around-world-capacity-work-older-ages/work-capacity-and-longer-working-lives-belgium.
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