Bargain, Olivier; Immervoll, Herwig; Viitamäki, Heikki - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 2009
remain. We find rates of non-take-up that are both substantial and robust: 40% to 50% of those eligible do not claim. Using … interview-based data, with misreporting and measurement errors affecting the variables needed to establish both benefit receipt …The main objectives of social assistance benefits, including poverty alleviation and labor- market or social …