299 pages. Stamped damaged on verso title page. Otherwise as new. ; Hardcover; 22.8 x 15.2 x 2.6 cm; 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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Title: The Arithmetic of Tax and Social Security Reform : a User's Guide to Microsimulation Methods and Analysis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, The Arithmetic OF Tax And Social Security Reform : A User's Guide TOMicrosimulation Methods And Ana
Publication Date: 1998
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0521632242
ISBN 13: 9780521632249
Binding: Original Boards
Edition: First Edition; First Edition.
Condition: As New
Dust Jacket Condition: As 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.

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