No claim, no pain. Measuring the non-take-up of social assistance using register data

Journal of Economic Inequality

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 375-395

  Bargain, Olivier ^a,b,c   Immervoll, Herwig ^d   Viitamäki, Heikki ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b IZA   (Germany)

^c Centre for Household Income Labour and Demographic Economics (CHILD)   (Italy)

^d OECD Paris and IZA ISER and European Center for Social Welfare Policy and Research   (Australia)

^e Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus Finland   (Finland)

Author keywords

Poverty; Register data; Social assistance; Take up

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865416825     PISSN: 15691721     EISSN: 15738701     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10888-010-9158-8     Document Type: Article

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