Growing Disability Rates — the Gender Issue: The Dutch Case in an International Perspective

Marcel Einerhand and Henk van der Stelt

International Social Security Review, 2005, vol. 58, issue 1, 65-84

Abstract: In the Netherlands, with its remarkably high disability rates, a new phenomenon seems to be emerging. Growing disability rates in the past few years have been exclusively caused by the growing inflow of women into the disability schemes. Comparing the Dutch situation internationally shows that roughly the same problem seems to exist in those countries in which there is a more general problem of large inflow into disability. Women are overrepresented in these arrangements. The Dutch literature shows that there are many factors (both work‐ and non‐work‐related) that contribute to a larger push of women towards disability. We conclude that the benefit system can be seen as a sort of “filter”. If the filter is weak, many persons will enter disability. If the pressure on women to enter is larger (or the forces to stop women from entering disability smaller), then inflow risks for women will be higher.

Date: 2005
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