The Dutch Disability Insurance Act (WAO) and the role of research in policy change

In the Dutch welfare state social policy research always has been an essential tool in policy development. Much public money has been spent on explanatory research and research that has to be supportive to policy design, policy improvement and the evaluation of social policies. A significant field in this respect is social security and more in particular the Dutch disability problem. Since the onset of the at the time fundamentally changed public disability insurance legislation in the second half of the sixties of the last century, disability has become one of the biggest problems of the Dutc... Mehr ...