Publication
Title
Exit from and re-entry into social assistance benefit in Belgium among people with migration background and the native-born
Author
Abstract
Whereas several studies have examined the timing of exit from social assistance, little is known about the exit destinations after social assistance and whether these entail different risks of re-entry into social assistance. Using administrative data, we studied 13,552 people with various migration backgrounds who entered social assistance in Belgium in 2004 or 2005. We tracked their social assistance spell(s) and the income source(s) after exit on a quarterly basis over 4 years, using random-effects hazard models. We found that one-third of the beneficiaries exited from first-spells to work, whereas 14% left to active labour market programmes (ALMPs) and 16% to social insurance benefits. About a third re-entered social assistance, in particular after short work exits. Participation in ALMPs and social insurance benefit receipt was less common among beneficiaries with migration background compared with native-born and these exits led less frequently to re-entry than did exits to paid employment.
Language
English
Source (journal)
International journal of social welfare. - Oxford, 1999, currens
Publication
Oxford : 2017
ISSN
1369-6866 [print]
1468-2397 [online]
DOI
10.1111/IJSW.12270
Volume/pages
26 :4 (2017) , p. 366-383
ISI
000423275300007
Full text (Publisher's DOI)
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UAntwerpen
Faculty/Department
Research group
Project info
Decentralisation and the activation of social assistance beneficiaries.
Publication type
Subject
Affiliation
Publications with a UAntwerp address
External links
Web of Science
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Last edited 09.10.2023
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