The Arithmetic of Tax and Social Security Reform: A User's Guide to Microsimulation Methods and Analysis (Department of Applied Economics Occasional Papers, Series Number 64) - Hardcover

Redmond, Gerry; Sutherland, Holly; Wilson, Moira

 
9780521632249: The Arithmetic of Tax and Social Security Reform: A User's Guide to Microsimulation Methods and Analysis (Department of Applied Economics Occasional Papers, Series Number 64)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0521632242 ISBN 13: 9780521632249
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1998

Synopsis

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 organizations. This study focuses on one particular model, POLIMOD. The authors provide an illustration of the type of analysis that can be performed, document the inner layers of data manipulation and model construction that shape its outputs, and examine the reliability of those outputs based on a validation against external sources.

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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 the 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 outputs. And it provides a detailed assessment of the reliability of those outputs based on a validation against external sources.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
1998
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521632242
ISBN 13 
9780521632249
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
318