This paper studies optimal disability and welfare benets with imperfect disability tagging. Labor supply is aected by the levels of both disability and welfare benets. The tagging process is implemented by social workers that may have some altruism toward claimants. All the individuals that are...

Our analysis offers a different rationale for the failure of the Atkinson-Stiglitz theorem than that of Naito (1999). Moreover, our results are in sharp contrast to those of Saez (2004) and Scheuer (2012), who considers an occupational choice model where workers have heterogeneous idiosyncratic...