Independent but Poor: On the Duration of Non-Take-Up of Social Welfare

Independent but Poor: On the Duration of Non-Take-Up of Social Welfare

There are people who live below the subsistence level and still do not receive social assistance. A study for the Social Welfare of Basel-City examined for the first time whether non-take-up is a short-term or long-lasting phenomenon. What do the findings mean for poverty reduction? The interactive visualization illustrates the trends of non-recipients and social welfare recipients. It was originally built for an article on the knoten & maschen Blog of the Bern University of Applied Sciences.

(created November 2023)