TY - JOUR AU - de Vos, Klaas AU - Kapteyn, Arie AU - Kalwij, Adriaan TI - Disability Insurance and Labor Market Exit Routes of Older Workers in The Netherlands JF - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series VL - No. 17053 PY - 2011 Y2 - May 2011 DO - 10.3386/w17053 UR - http://www.nber.org/papers/w17053 L1 - http://www.nber.org/papers/w17053.pdf N1 - Author contact info: Klaas de Vos CentERdata Tilburg University Warandelaan 2 5037 AB Tilburg The Netherlands E-Mail: K.deVos@uvt.nl Arie Kapteyn University of Southern California Center for Economic and Social Research 635 Downey Way Suite 312 Los Angeles, CA 90089-3332 Tel: 310/448-5383 E-Mail: kapteyn@usc.edu Adriaan Kalwij Utrecht University School of Economics Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging and Retirement The Netherlands E-Mail: a.s.kalwij@uu.nl M1 - published as Klaas de Vos, Arie Kapteyn, Adriaan Kalwij. "Disability Insurance and Labor Market Exit Routes of Older Workers in the Netherlands," in David A. Wise, editor, "Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World: Historical Trends in Mortality and Health, Employment, and Disability Insurance Participation and Reforms" University of Chicago Press (2012) M3 - presented at "International Social Security Conference", May 2, 2011 AB - This paper presents information on labor market participation of the elderly, mortality and health, pathways to retirement and rates of participation in various earnings replacing programs in the Netherlands. It presents an overview of reforms to Disability Insurance (DI) and other income maintenance and early retirement programs over the past few decades, and examines to what extent these reforms have affected labor market exit routes of older workers. The overall picture that emerges is that DI receipt appears unrelated to the general health of the population and that over the last two decades relatively fewer older workers exit the labor market through DI. This reduction may, arguably, in part be attributed to stricter DI eligibility rules. ER -