Smaller net or just fewer to catch? Disentangling the causes for the varying sizes of minimum income schemes

The number of social assistance recipients varies significantly between welfare states. Social is a last-resort residual benefit, so high receipts may be related to policies for first-tier benefits, and their implementation, as well need factors (unemployment rate low income). Considering the strong political will diminish receipt we demonstrated way decompose reasons eligibility in cross-national analysis two Nordic countries, namely Finland Sweden. By using administrative register microdata, simulations policy swaps, found that legislative features assistance, such more extensive benefit norms earning disregard, contribute Finland's higher likely explain some its recipients. also exhibited lower non-take-up rates among those eligible, which implies better access benefits than