Frick, Joachim R.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
Using representative micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for the year 2002, we analyse non-take-up behaviour of Social Assistance (SA) in Germany. According to our simulation as much as 67 percent of the eligible population did not claim SA in that year which is slightly...