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)

Redmond, Gerry; Sutherland, Holly; Wilson, Moira

ISBN 10: 0521632242 / ISBN 13: 9780521632249

Published by Cambridge University Press, 1998

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• Title: 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)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521632242
• ISBN 13: 9780521632249
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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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 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.