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

Hümbelin, Oliver (2019). Non-Take-Up of Social Assistance: Regional Differences and the Role of Social Norms Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Soziologie = Revue Suisse de Sociologie = Swiss Journal of Sociology, 45(1), pp. 7-33. Seismo 10.2478/sjs-2019-0002

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This 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.

Item Type:	Journal Article (Original Article)
Division/Institute:	School of Social Work > Social Security focus area School of Social Work BFH Centres and strategic thematic fields > BFH Centre for Social Security School of Social Work > Institute for Social Security and Social Policy
Name:	Hümbelin, Oliver0000-0002-8983-9958
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HA Statistics H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
ISSN:	2297-8348
Publisher:	Seismo
Language:	English
Submitter:	Oliver Hümbelin
Date Deposited:	09 Jan 2020 13:20
Last Modified:	16 Jun 2022 21:45
Publisher DOI:	10.2478/sjs-2019-0002
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Uncontrolled Keywords:	non-take-up, social assistance, Switzerland, regional differences, welfare attitudes
ARBOR DOI:	10.24451/arbor.9877
URI:	https://arbor.bfh.ch/id/eprint/9877