The Arithmetic of Tax and Social Security Reform: A User's Guide to Microsimulation Methods and Analysis

Redmond, Gerry; Sutherland, Holly; Wilson, Moira

ISBN 10: 0521632242 / ISBN 13: 9780521632249

Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998

About this Item

Hardcover. From the collection of the late Professor Sir A.B. Atkinson. Signed and dedicated to him by Holly Sutherland, one of the authors, on FEP. Compliments slip signed by Holly Sutherland is laid in between pages 172 and 173. Light edge-wear and sunning on jacket. Light foxing on page block. Pages are clean. Contents are clear. AF.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Arithmetic of Tax and Social Security Reform: A User's Guide to Microsimulation Methods and Analysis
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521632242
• ISBN 13: 9780521632249
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed and Dedicated By Author
• Book Type: Used
• Seller catalogs:
  • Economics

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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.