Contini, Dalit; Richiardi, Matteo G. - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 84 (2012) 1, pp. 229-244
Stigma has been modeled in the literature as a cost of welfare participation, providing a disincentive to welfare entry …; hence, traditional models predict that stigma leads to higher search effort and higher employment. We develop a more … comprehensive model that accounts for the fact that welfare stigma may elicit psychological effects and foster negative attitudes …
