Early retirement schemes and disability insurance in the Netherlands have both been reformed during the past decades. The reforms have increased incentives to continue working and have decreased the substitution between early retirement and disability. This study investigates the impact of the...

The second-largest pension fund in the Netherlands, the health care sector fund PFZW (former PGGM), placed the administrative records of its participants for 1999 to 2007 at the disposal of Statistics Netherlands. The data contain precise information on pension and early retirement rights and...

On the basis of the German Socio-Economic Panel 2002 and the Dutch Social Position and Use of Provision Survey 2002, we investigate the importance of characteristics related to immigration for the labour market position of Turkish immigrants. We use regression techniques to correct for...

On the basis of three micro datasets, the German Socio-Economic Panel 2002, the Dutch Social Position and Use of Provision Survey 2002 and the Dutch Labour Force Survey 2002, we investigate the labour market position of Turkish immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands. We compare labour market...

Using the Dutch Labour Force Survey 1991-2001, the authors investigate the incidence of part-time employment in the country with the highest part-time employment rate of the OECD countries. Women fulfill most part-time jobs, but a considerable fraction of men works part-time as well. Evidence...

We analyze models for individuals' labor market state. We distinguish between full-time and part-time work, but also between various types of economic inactivity, i.e., unemployment, disability, early retirement and working in the household. We consider the impact on the state probabilities of...

Desired and actual working hours of unmarried adults are analyzed. A discrete structural neoclassical model is used to explain desired hours. Desired hours depend on gross wage rates, tax and benefit rules, other income, and some background variables. The model takes account of fixed costs of...