Publication type
EUROMOD Working Paper Series
Series Number
EM9/19
Series
EUROMOD Working Paper Series
Authors
Publication date
April 24, 2019
Abstract:
Non-take-up of means tested benefits is a wide spread phenomenon in European welfare states. The paper assesses whether the reform that replaced the monetary social assistance benefit by the minimum income benefit in Austria has succeeded in increasing take up rates. We use EU-SILC register data together with the tax-benefit microsimulation model EUROMOD/SORESI. The results show that the reform led to a significant decrease of non-take-up from 53% to 30% in terms of the number of households and from 51% to 30% in terms of expenditure. Estimates of a two-stage Heckman selection model show that pecuniary determinants (higher degree of need), lower applications costs (unemployment, low education, renting one’s home) and lower psychological barriers (size of municipality and lone-parenthood) are predictors of taking up the benefit.
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