[Work disability as a form of early retirement].
This article explores to what extent a disability-insurance-law for employees in the Netherlands (the WAO) functions as an early-retirement-program. It is shown that there are strong positive correlations between age and the chance to quality for disability-benefits on the one hand and age and the duration of the disability on the other hand. This results in reduced participation-rates among older age-groups in the laborforce. This is one of the reasons why the pensionable age fixed by law at sixty-five does not lead to a clear-cut rift in these participation-rates at this pensionable age.
D000368:Aged; D004526:Efficiency; D004651:Employment; D006801:Humans; D007348:Insurance, Health; D007878:Legislation as Topic; D008875:Middle Aged; D009426:Netherlands; D012179:Retirement; D014942:Workers' Compensation
Arbeidsongeschiktheid als een vorm van vervroegde uittreding.