The desire to avoid the shame of being dependent on government aid is often cited as a cause of low welfare take … dismantle the stigma and thus increase the welfare take-up rate. …

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 …

This paper describes IZAΨMOD, the policy microsimulation model of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). The model … most other microsimulation tools. A demand module takes into account possible restrictions of labor demand and identifies …

Applied welfare analyses of redistributive systems nowadays benefit from powerful tax benefit microsimulation programs … combined with administrative data. Arguably, most of the distributional studies of that kind focus on social welfare defined as … has made considerable progress in the measurement of welfare along several dimensions. Distinct but related branches of …