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 …

social policy reforms in 2005. The analysis is based on a microsimulation model, which includes a detailed description of the …

social policy reforms in 2005. The analysis is based on a microsimulation model, which includes a detailed description of the …

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. …

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