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The TAKE Project

W ork so far and outlook

Tim Goedemé, PhD Coordinator

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Goals

Non-take up (NTU)

• Social benefits
• Employment subsidies

Size, determinants and solutions Quantitative, qualitative, experiments

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w age subsidies Federal Planning Bureau

1 . Achieved w ork

• Literature review
• Institutional context:
• Inventory of measures
• Interviews with frontline actors (NSSO, employer federation

SNI/ NSZ, social secretariats Securex and Partena Professional, SOGEPA, Le Forem)

• Investigation of existing data:
• NSSO data exploration (calculation of the granted amount,

labour volume,… )

• Choice of 4 measures to be studied in detail: the “structural”

reduction, the reduction for “old workers”, the “Activa” measure for unemployed, the reduction for “First recruitments”

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2 . W ork in progress

• Quantitative online survey on employers:
• Partena Professional, Feb. 15th – May 1st:

480 responses (217 complete; 209 incomplete) Analysis in progress

• Firms related to Walloon investment companies

(SOGEPA,SOWALFIN,SRIW)

• Quantitative survey: during May (?)
• Investigation of existing data:
• “Structural reduction”: in progress
• “First recruitments”: in progress
• Preparation of a request to the CBSS for a matching between

NSSO and NEO to study the “Activa” measure

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3 . Future w ork

• In-depth analysis of quantitative online surveys on

employers

• In-depth interviews with employers related to SOGEPA (?)
• Analysis of existing data for the 4 chosen measures,

identification of employers’ profiles with low take up rates and factors determining non-take up

• Recommendations to improve the take-up of wage

subsidies by employers

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Social Benefits

• Theoretical framework
• Van Mechelen and Janssens (2017) “Who is to blame?

An overview of the factors contributing to the non- take-up of social rights”, CSB Working Paper

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Social Benefits

• Institutional context
• Policy design + data fluxes: TAKE_ISSOC
• Knowledge about NTU + monitoring of NTU
• Later: characteristics of Public Centres for Social

Welfare

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Social benefits

• Institutional context
• State of affairs automatization of eligibility tests (at

federal level)

• Buysse et al. (forthcoming) “De automatische

toekenning van rechten in de Belgische sociale bescherming.” In Jaarboek armoede in België

• Automatic entitlements (e.g. “buffer database” & tied

benefits)

• Automatic identification of potentially eligible (e.g. IR)
• Automatic actualisation (e.g. child benefits)
• Administrative simplification (e.g. IRISbox)

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Social Benefits

• Automisation
• Positive impact on uptake & more time for outreaching

and more problematic cases?

• Need for simplification of eligibility criteria?
• Omitting important information (e.g. assets) &

increased targeting errors

• Need for possibility to opt-out?
• Identification of potential beneficiaries: risk of cost for

administrations and claimants

• Requirement of up-to-date information (cf. proactive

flux)

• Mistakes in administrative data & further completion of

databases

• Balancing inclusive and exclusive view on take up

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Social Benefits

• Size, determinants and solutions 1
• Main focus: Living wage; Income guarantee for the

elderly; Increased reimbursement; Heating allowance

• TAKE survey (mainly determinants and targeting

efficiency + change in targeting efficiency with change in eligibility criteria)

• Large administrative survey (mainly size and

characteristics + consequences of making eligibility parameters more uniform)

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Social Benefits

• Solutions 2
• Large-scale field experiment(s) regarding increased

reimbursement (IR)

• Christian Mutualities
• Impact proactive flux on uptake of IR
• Letters + flyers
• Telephone calls
• Variance between ‘social workers’
• Association with information costs, stigma, process

costs, scarcity

• Impact uptake IR on use of health care