Der vorliegende Band beschäftigt sich mit folgenden thematischen Schwerpunkten: zum einen geht es um die Entwicklung der Zahl der Invaliditätspensionen in Österreich sowie um die wirtschaftlichen Kosten von Invalidisierung; zum anderen geht es um Wege der aktiven Gegensteuerung gegen...

I investigate the incentive effects of disability pensions on the labor supply decision of the elderly in Germany. In the year 2001, a reform decreased the level of benefits and tightened the criteria of eligibility. The purpose of this paper is twofold: First, I estimate transition rates into...

The original version of this paper was presented at the conference on the International Social Security Project (Phase VI) organized by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in Lisbon, Portugal, on May 28-29, 2010. We are grateful for the useful comments from participants at the...

In the past two decades the OECD has regularly voiced concern about the labor market exclusion of people with disabilities and about the cost of disability insurance programs. This paper examines whether the fundamental disability insurance reforms that were implemented in the Netherlands have...