residual work capacities that can be exploited. After the first phase of benefit entitlement, workers that do not use their … residual income capacity experience a large drop in benefit income. In effect, this implies a substantial increase in …

disabilities and about the cost of disability insurance programs. This paper examines whether the fundamental disability insurance … problems or disability. An important component of the Dutch reforms was to enhance employer incentives, which was done by … information to examine whether the disability reforms have in fact improved the economic situation for the disabled. On balance …

It is well known that the take-up rate of the Dutch housing benefit and othermeans tested benefits is substantially … apply for the benefit is based is animportant source of simulation error.The data that were available for this study contain … theanalysis of take-up rates. In this model both the decision of a renting household to applyfor the benefit and that of the …

We exploit an age discontinuity in a Dutch disability insurance (DI) reform to identify the health impact of stricter … negative health effect on females is restricted to women with low pre-disability earnings. We hypothesize that the gender …

differences in health translate into a substantially higher (30%) risk of applying for disability insurance (DI) in the …

Using Dutch administrative data, we assess the work and earnings capacity of disability insurance (DI) recipients by … estimating employment and earnings responses to benefit cuts. Reassessment of DI entitlement under more stringent criteria … partial disability benefits appears to slow the deterioration of earnings capacity. …

exploit a 1993 policy reform in the Netherlands which tightened disability insurance (DI) criteria for existing claimants, and …