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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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differences in health translate into a substantially higher (30%) risk of applying for disability insurance (DI) in the …
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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. …
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exploit a 1993 policy reform in the Netherlands which tightened disability insurance (DI) criteria for existing claimants, and …
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In many Western countries, a sizeable group of people live on welfare benefits for a long time. Many of them suffer from mental health issues. This paper studies the labor market and mental health effects of an activation program targeting these long-term inactive people. We exploit the...
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The European Commission favours the introduction of a consolidated corporate tax base to overcome the distortions arising from the existing system of separate accounting. The blueprints for consolidation are simulated with the applied general equilibrium model CORTAX. We show that the benefits...
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