personal income (30% for those entering disability insurance) two years after the shock. There is no subsequent recovery in …

This paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history … onset of a disability by around 138%. However, health shocks are relatively rare events and therefore the larger part of … observed disability rates result from gradual deteriorations in health. We find no direct effect of health shocks on employment …

In the 1980s and 1990s, disability benefit rates in the Netherlands were among the highest in the world. However, since … the beginning of this century the number of disability cases has dropped remarkably due to some very successful policy … reforms. An administrative dataset of Dutch disability benefit recipients from 1999 until 2010 has been used for analyzing the …