- Title Pages
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An NBER Conference Report
- National Bureau of Economic Research
- Relation of the Directors to the Work and Publications of the National Bureau of Economic Research
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
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1 Social Security Incentives in Belgium -
2 Retirement Incentives and Canada’s Social Security Programs -
3 Labor Force Exit in Denmark, 1980–2016 -
4 Workers’ Employment Rates and Pension Reforms in France -
5 Social Security Reforms and the Changing Retirement Behavior in Germany -
6 The Evolution of Incentives for Retirement in Italy, 1980–2015 -
7 Social Security Programs and Elderly Employment in Japan -
8 Social Security Programs and Employment at Older Ages in the Netherlands -
9 Trends in Employment and Social Security Incentives in the Spanish Pension System, 1980–2016 -
10 Social Security Reforms and the Changing Retirement Behavior in Sweden -
11 A Lifetime of Changes -
12 The Evolution of Retirement Incentives in the US - Contributors
- Author Index
- Subject Index
Social Security Incentives in Belgium
Social Security Incentives in Belgium
An Analysis of Four Decades of Change
This chapter traces labor market reforms in Belgium over the last four decades. While Belgium was long characterized by low employment and labor force participation rates of the elderly male population, there was a reversal of this trend as the country witnessed a continuous increase in employment rates of older men from the early 2000s on. This chapter provides estimates of retirement incentives for a selected set of typical worker profiles across time and socioeconomic groups and links these series to the labor market performance in Belgium. The results show that the numerous retirement and social security program reforms have had a marked impact on incentives at the micro level. At the aggregate level, results are less clear-cut given the extreme diversity of programs and features in the Belgian institutional context.
Keywords: earnings, benefits, pension reform, retirement incentives, employment, Belgium, older workers, implicit tax, working longer
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- Title Pages
-
An NBER Conference Report
- National Bureau of Economic Research
- Relation of the Directors to the Work and Publications of the National Bureau of Economic Research
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
-
1 Social Security Incentives in Belgium -
2 Retirement Incentives and Canada’s Social Security Programs -
3 Labor Force Exit in Denmark, 1980–2016 -
4 Workers’ Employment Rates and Pension Reforms in France -
5 Social Security Reforms and the Changing Retirement Behavior in Germany -
6 The Evolution of Incentives for Retirement in Italy, 1980–2015 -
7 Social Security Programs and Elderly Employment in Japan -
8 Social Security Programs and Employment at Older Ages in the Netherlands -
9 Trends in Employment and Social Security Incentives in the Spanish Pension System, 1980–2016 -
10 Social Security Reforms and the Changing Retirement Behavior in Sweden -
11 A Lifetime of Changes -
12 The Evolution of Retirement Incentives in the US - Contributors
- Author Index
- Subject Index
