Social Security and Retirement in The Netherlands / Arie Kapteyn, Klaas de Vos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kapteyn, Arie.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

de Vos, Klaas.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w6135.

NBER working paper series no. w6135

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social security--Netherlands.

Social security.

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1997.

Cambridge, Mass. : National Bureau of Economic Research, 1997.

Summary:

Compared to other industrialized countries, the labor force participation of the elderly in the Netherlands is very low. Moreover, it has fallen very fast over recent years. We discuss the incentives for employees to retire, arising from public schemes such as social security and disability insurance, and from private arrangements, such as early retirement and occupational pensions. In general, the generous replacement rates offered by these schemes act as powerful stimuli for retirement. Although Dutch research into the retirement effects of the earnings replacing schemes for the elderly was limited until the early nineties, there is now a fast growing literature on this. This literature confirms the findings in the current paper.

Notes:

Print version record

August 1997.

Includes bibliographical references.