We examine the targeting effects of increased scrutiny in the screening of Disability Insurance (DI) applications using … social insurance programs. As we do not find additional screening effects on health at the point of the award decision, we …

This paper investigates the effects of intensified screening of disability insurance benefit applications. A large …-scale experiment was setup where in 2 of the 26 Dutch regions case workers of the disability insurance administration were instructed … absenteeism and disability insurance applications. This provides evidence both for direct effects of the more intensive screening …

disability programs in four countries: Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United States. We show how growth in the receipt …

these trends, this paper estimates Age-Period- Cohort (APC) models on administrative data of Disability Insurance (DI …) application cohorts for the Netherlands between 1999 and 2013. Our main finding is that the substantial decrease in employment …

Disability insurance (DI) beneficiaries lose part of their benefits if their earnings exceed certain thresholds ("cash …

officially accepted into the disability insurance system (DI). Therefore, in this paper we distinguish between individuals that …

individual data from the Netherlands from 2006 to 2013. We focus on workers receiving partial DI benefits and with substantial …

estimate the causal effect of exit from disability insurance (DI) on participation in other social assistance programs. We find …-out effect declines over time, but is still 25% eight years after the reform. -- crowd-out ; spillover effects ; social insurance …

disability insurance program. We find that discretion is more often exercised in favor of lower-waged applicants. Pre …

insurance benefits. One of the peculiarities of the disability insurance program under investigation is that the level of …