stigma disutility increases with the number of non-disabled recipients. Tagging transfers according to disability … work due to either disability or distaste for work. Taxpayers have resentment against inactive benefit recipients because … characteristics decreases stigma. However, tagging is costly and imperfect. In this context, I show how the level of the per capita …

stigma disutility increases with the number of non-disabled recipients. Tagging transfers according to disability … work due to either disability or distaste for work. Taxpayers have resentment against inactive benefit recipients because … characteristics decreases stigma. However, tagging is costly and imperfect. In this context, I show how the level of the per capita …

There are two important problems in welfare benefit programs: the prevalence of welfare fraud, in which ineligible … coexistence of welfare fraud and incomplete take-up is unstable in the model of statistical discrimination view welfare stigma … the tax-payer resentment view welfare stigma suggested by Besley and Coate (1992). We find multiple stable equilibria in …

There are two important problems in welfare benefit programs: the prevalence of welfare fraud, in which ineligible … coexistence of welfare fraud and incomplete take-up is unstable in the model of statistical discrimination view welfare stigma … the tax-payer resentment view welfare stigma suggested by Besley and Coate (1992). We find multiple stable equilibria in …

We study fraud in the unemployment insurance (UI) system using a dataset of 35 million debit card transactions. We … verification systems between 2020 and 2021 to assess the effectiveness of screening for reducing fraud. Our findings suggest that … technologies. Our results indicate that identity screening may be an effective mechanism for mitigating fraud in the UI system and …

on federal income taxation. Mr. Wallwork provides a novel look at the Tax Court's doctrine of preparer fraud, which … policy actually increases fraud in the name of preventing it …

evasion. We analyze the impact of the widely introduced e-invoicing in Italy on cross-border value-added tax fraud. As a proxy … for this tax fraud, we make use of the discrepancy in trade data that is double-reported in both the importing and … remaining countries of the European Union. Our results suggest a significant decline in cross-border fraud in response to the …

evasion. We analyze the impact of the widely introduced e-invoicing in Italy on cross-border value-added tax fraud. As a proxy … for this tax fraud, we make use of the discrepancy in trade data that is double-reported in both the importing and … remaining countries of the European Union. Our results suggest a significant decline in cross-border fraud in response to the …

serious misreporting (“fraud”). We find, compared to a matched sample, that fraud firms' employee wages decline by 9% and the … separation rate is higher by 12% during and after fraud periods. Employment growth at fraud firms is positive during fraud … thick labor markets, bankruptcy and non-bankruptcy firms, worker movements, pre-fraud wage levels, and period of hire …