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Non-Take-Up of Social Assistance: Regional Differences and the Role of Social Norms

Type of publication	Peer-reviewed
Publikationsform	Original article (peer-reviewed)

Author	Hümbelin Oliver,
Project	Ungleichheit, Armutsrisiken und Wohlfahrtsstaat. Potenziale der Datenverknüpfung von Administrativ- und Befragungsdaten für die Ungleichheitsforschung

Type of publication

Peer-reviewed

Publikationsform

Original article (peer-reviewed)

Author

Hümbelin Oliver,

Project

Ungleichheit, Armutsrisiken und Wohlfahrtsstaat. Potenziale der Datenverknüpfung von Administrativ- und Befragungsdaten für die Ungleichheitsforschung

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Original article (peer-reviewed)

Journal	Swiss Journal of Sociology
Volume (Issue)	45(1)
Page(s)	7 - 33
Title of proceedings	Swiss Journal of Sociology
DOI	10.2478/sjs-2019-0002

Open Access

URL	http://doi.org/10.2478/sjs-2019-0002
Type of Open Access	Publisher (Gold Open Access)

URL

http://doi.org/10.2478/sjs-2019-0002

Type of Open Access

Publisher (Gold Open Access)

Abstract

AbstractThis study estimates the prevalence of non-take-up of social assistance using administrative data from the Canton of Bern. Regional variation in non-take-up rates is then used to study the contextual effects of social norms with respect to welfare receipt legitimacy. Social norms are proxied with the degree of urbanity, language regions and communal voter shares of left- and right-wing parties. Multiple regression analysis, extended by several robustness checks, suggests that social norms do indeed have an impact on take-up behavior.