The Growth of Disability Insurance in Belgium: Economic determinants and Policy Implications

Octave De Brouwer

ULB Institutional Repository from ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles

Abstract: In the three chapters of this PhD dissertation, I analyze the increase in the Belgian DI recipiency rate and the role of social security reforms in this phenomenon. The first chapter provides a general overview of the Belgian DI program, analyzes different possible explanations for its rapid growth between 2005 and 2015 and discusses different policy options to address this phenomenon. The second chapter studies the effects of monitoring the job-search activities exerted by the long-term unemployed population on their exit rate to employment, DI and other social safety net programs. The third chapter studies the effect of increasing the eligibility age for an old-age unemployment program, called Unemployment with Company Supplement (UCS), on workers’ employment rate and participation rate in DI or other social security programs.

Keywords: Social Insurance, Disability Insurance; Unemployment Insurance. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-06-29
Note: Degree: Doctorat en Sciences économiques et de gestion
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://dipot.ulb.ac.be/dspace/bitstream/2013/359863/3/Table_of_Content.pdf Table des matières (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ulb:ulbeco:2013/359863

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
http://hdl.handle.ne ... lb.ac.be:2013/359863

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in ULB Institutional Repository from ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Benoit Pauwels ().