TY  - JOUR
AU  - Jousten, Alain
AU  - Lefebvre, Mathieu
TI  - Work Capacity and Longer Working Lives in Belgium
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 21970
PY  - 2016
Y2  - February 2016
DO  - 10.3386/w21970
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w21970
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w21970.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Alain Jousten
University of Liege
Law Faculty, HEC-ULg and Tax Institute
Place des Orateurs 3
4000 Liege 1
BELGIUM
E-Mail: ajousten@ulg.ac.be

Mathieu Lefebvre
BETA University of Strasbourg
CREPP - Universite de Liege
Bvd du Rectorat 7 (B31) - B4000 Liège
Tel: ++32 4 366 31 03
Fax: ++32 4 366 31 06
E-Mail: mathieu.lefebvre@ulg.ac.be
M1  - published as Alain Jousten, Mathieu Lefebvre. "Work Capacity and Longer Working Lives in Belgium," in David A. Wise, editor, "Social Security Programs and Retirement around the World: The Capacity to Work at Older Ages" University of Chicago Press (2017)

M3  - presented at "International Social Security Project", May 21-23, 2015
AB  - We explore the link between health indicators and employment rates of the population aged 55 or more. Our focus lies on work capacity as a key determinant of employment. Using cohort mortality information as a proxy for overall health outcomes, we establish a substantial untapped work capacity in the population 55+. Even stronger results are obtained when relying on individual-level objective and subjective health and socioeconomic parameters as predictors.
ER  -