Bargain, Olivier; Immervoll, Herwig; Viitamäki, Heikki - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
The non take-up of social assistance benefits due to claim costs may seriously limit the antipoverty effect of these programs. Yet, available evidence is fragmented and mostly relies on interview-based data, potentially biased by misreporting and measurement errors on both benefit entitlement...