The take up of social benefits

Authors

Manos Matsaganis, Alari Paulus, Holly Sutherland

Publication Date

Oct 2008

Abstract

The shift in favour of means-tested benefits observed in several European countries since the early 1980s and the rise of refundable tax credits since the mid-1990s raise the questions of how well-targeted such benefits are and what the distributional implications of target inefficiency might be. This research note, using the EUROMOD tax-benefit model, presents the results of estimating the effects of non-take up on target efficiency and on the performance of social assistance benefits in reducing the relative number of people with income below the poverty line.

Publication type

Research Paper

Series Number

5/2008

Research area

Tax and benefit systems

Links

European Commission - Social Situation Observatory Research Notes - https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?pager.offset=85&advSearchKey=ssonotes&mode=advancedSubmit&catId=22&policyArea=0&policyAreaSub=0&country=0&year=0

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