The non take-up of social assistance benefits due to claim costs may seriously limit the antipoverty effect of these …

The main objectives of social assistance benefits, including poverty alleviation and labor-market or social … discuss the poverty implications of our results. …

benefits. Once methodological shortcomings of prior estimations are corrected, the results show that take-up has fallen … claim their benefits. …

Are immigrants on welfare because they are more likely to be eligible or because they are more likely to claim benefits … test whether immigrants to Germany are more likely than natives to claim welfare benefits for which they are eligible. We … eligible, and because they are more likely, when eligible, to claim their benefits. However, we also find that this greater …

Economies with low unemployment often have high disability rates. In Norway, the permanent disability insurance rolls … and closure data collected from bankruptcy proceedings, we show that a large fraction of Norwegian disability insurance … claims can be directly attributed to job displacement and other adverse shocks to employment opportunities. For men, we …

employment rates than they would have had on regular sick leave. We conclude that the activation strategies that in recent years …