Microsimulation studies typically assume that all entitlements to means-tested benefits are actually claimed by …

Research on welfare participation often shows significant differences between immigrants and natives that are often … attributed to immigrants' higher risk of welfare dependence. We study whether immigrants in Germany also differ from their German … counterparts in their take-up behavior conditional on being eligible for welfare benefits. The empirical approach intends (i) to …

Non-take-up of means tested benefits is a wide spread phenomenon in European welfare states. The paper assesses whether … increasing take up rates. We use EU-SILC register data together with the tax-benefit microsimulation model EUROMOD/SORESI. The …

This papers quantifies the redistributive effects on progressivity, poverty and welfare, that would occur if the … poverty reducing as the one in force (or more in some dimensions), and a generator of greater welfare. …

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 …

-benefit microsimulation model for Tanzania. The paper provides an account of the current tax-benefit system in Tanzania and introduces the …

-benefit microsimulation model for the EU. First, we briefly report the process of updating EUROMOD. We then present indicators for income …

-benefit microsimulation model for the EU. First, we briefly report the process of constructing and updating EUROMOD. We then present …