{"title":"[Work disability as a form of early retirement].","authors":"M Herweyer","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>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.</p>","PeriodicalId":79220,"journal":{"name":"Gerontologie","volume":"12 2","pages":"91-103"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1981-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Gerontologie","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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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.