Open AccessThe Trouble with Take-UpOpen Access
Author(s)
Doorley Karina,
Kakoulidou Theano
Publication year2024
Publication title
the b.e. journal of economic analysis and policy
Resource typePrimary source documents
PublisherDe Gruyter
Take-up of social welfare is key to its success in alleviating poverty. For a variety of reasons, including stigma, transaction costs and information asymmetry, take-up of welfare benefits is imperfect. This research note discusses the issue of take-up of social welfare and its measurement. We explore the difficulties of estimating welfare take-up, using the example of the Irish Working Family Payment (WFP) and two microsimulation models. We show how estimates of take-up can vary depending on the dataset used for simulation. We then estimate take-up of the WFP, updating the most recent estimate from 2005. Lastly, we discuss policy lessons.
Keyword(s)in-work benefits, take-up, microsimulation
Language(s)English
SCImago Journal Rank0.31
H-Index39
eISSN1935-1682
pISSN2194-6108
DOI10.1515/bejeap-2023-0170
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