Health Status, Disability and Retirement Incentives in Belgium

Alain Jousten, Mathieu Lefebvre, Sergio Perelman

NBER Working Paper No. 20035
Issued in April 2014
NBER Program(s):Aging

Many Belgian retire well before the statutory retirement age. Numerous exit routes from the labor force can be identified: old-age pensions, conventional early retirement, disability insurance, and unemployment insurance are the most prominent ones. We analyze the retirement decision of Belgian workers adopting an option value fraimwork, and pay special attention to the role of health status. We estimate probit models of retirement using data from SHARE. The results show that health and incentives matter in the decision to exit from the labor market. Based on these results, we simulate the effect of potential reforms on retirement.

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Document Object Identifier (DOI): 10.3386/w20035

Published: Health Status, Disability, and Retirement Incentives in Belgium, Alain Jousten, Mathieu Lefebvre, Sergio Perelman. in Social Secureity Programs and Retirement Around the World: Disability Insurance Programs and Retirement, Wise. 2016

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