Senior workers' participation in the labour market and public policies: the case of the Netherlands. Deliverable WP 2-3

At the end of the eighties it became clear that the Dutch welfare state could not afford this early exit culture with low participation rates of older people any longer. Dutch Prime Minister Ruud Lubbers made a famous speech in 1990 in which he concluded that “The Netherlands are ill”. He considered it a major challenge to make the Dutch economy healthy again. From the beginning of the nineties, the Dutch government developed all kind of policies to bend back the trend of ever earlier retirement and increasing disability rates among older workers. It was not until the middle of the nineties wh... Mehr ...