The Arithmetic of Tax and Social Security Reform : A User's Guide to Microsimulation Methods and Analysis Hardback
by Gerry (University of Cambridge) Redmond, Holly (University of Cambridge) Sutherland, Moira (Department of Social Welfare, New Zealand) Wilson
Part of the Department of Applied Economics Occasional Papers series
Hardback
Description
Tax-benefit models are powerful tools for the analysis of the impact of policy reform, in regular use around the world in government and research organisations.
This study focuses on one particular model, POLIMOD, and performs three tasks.
It provides an illustration of the type of analysis that can be performed, and demonstrates the sensitivity of results to some of the key assumptions that are made.
It steps inside POLIMOD and documents some of the inner layers of data manipulation and model construction that drive its output. And it provides a detailed assessment of the reliability of those outputs based on a validation against external sources.
The study offers those who use models like POLIMOD, or their outputs, an appreciation of the constraints and assumptions that shape the analysis they provide. And it provides those directly involved in the development of microsimulation models with a guide to methods.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:318 pages, 94 Tables, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:01/10/1998
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- ISBN:9780521632249
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:318 pages, 94 Tables, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:01/10/1998
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521632249
