Employment among individuals with work disabilities before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands: results of a longitudinal cohort study

Our results suggest that the lower employment probabilities seem not to be solely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It is likely that the introduction of new Dutch regulations for employers, effective from 1 January 2020, has strongly decreased the number of workers with work disabilities in flexible contracts. Further research will need to determine whether such effects align with those in the total working population or were restricted to individuals with work disabilities.