There are two important problems in welfare benefit programs: the prevalence of welfare fraud, in which ineligible … people receive welfare benefits, and incomplete take-up, whereby eligible poor people are reluctant to claim welfare benefits … the tax-payer resentment view welfare stigma suggested by Besley and Coate (1992). We find multiple stable equilibria in …

An important issue in public policy debates is the effect of international migration on welfare in source and host … analysis examines the effects of permanent migration on class, and national welfare. We show, among other things, that marginal …

revenue finances the provision of a public good, marginal migration reduces social welfare in the source country and raises it … migration has an ambiguous impact on social welfare in either country. When tariff revenue in either country is either equally … effect on social welfare in the host country, and is expected to reduce social welfare in the source. …

We present the results from a natural experiment in which single mothers on welfare were stimulated to find a job. Two … municipalities in The Netherlands, a country with relatively high benefits and low incentives for single mothers to leave welfare for … work. In our analysis, we make a distinction between native and immigrant welfare recipients. For immigrant single mothers …

We study the intergenerational transmission of welfare benefit receipt in Germany. We first describe the correlation … between welfare receipt experienced in the parental household and subsequent own welfare receipt of young adults. In a second … step, we investigate whether the observed correlations reflect causal effects of past welfare experience. We use family …

higher social welfare. A substantial empirical literature establishes that workers reciprocate gifts in the form of higher … hypotheses and confirms the behavioral and welfare implications. …

variables over the period 1970 to 2013. For the baseline simulation, the welfare gain for capital owners is 3.7% of per …-period consumption while workers suffer a welfare loss of 1.4%. Using counterfactual simulations, we find that both groups could have …

This paper utilises a multi-country microsimulation tax-benefit model for Europe, EUROMOD, to simulate the distribution …

expectations, a structural labor demand model, and a tax-benefit microsimulation model. Our findings show that as of September 2020 …