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The Polish tax and benefit system is presented in the context of a recently developed microsimulation model, SIMPL. The … describes details of the Polish tax and benefit system and the simulation assumptions which were necessary in modelling it in …
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-benefit policies on female labor supply based on a broad sample of 26 European countries in 2005-2010. The tax-benefit microsimulation …
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developing countries and highlights the role of microsimulation techniques to characterize how different African countries can …
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The current debt crisis has given rise to a debate about deeper fiscal integration in Europe. The view is widespread that moving towards a 'fiscal union' would have a stabilising effect in the event of macroeconomic shocks. In this paper we study the economic effects of introducing two elements...
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How do different components of the tax and transfer systems affect disposable income inequality? This paper explores the redistributive effects of different tax benefit instruments in the enlarged EU based on two approaches. Inequality analysis based on the standard approach suggests that...
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birth cohorts in Germany. The analysis is based on a rich dataset that combines household survey data from the German Socio …-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) and process-produced microdata from the German pension insurance. A microsimulation model is developed … East Germany and for the low educated. Using simulated life cycle employment and income profiles, we project gross future …
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taxation, combined with microsimulation and microeconometric techniques we derive the welfare function which makes the current …
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responses in microsimulation models. The paper focuses attention on two methodologies for modelling labour supply: the discrete … models for policy simulation in terms of producing and interpreting simulation outcomes, outlining an extensive literature of …
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We use a behavioural microsimulation model embedded in a numerical optimization procedure in order to identify optimal …
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Many Western economies have reformed their welfare systems with the aim of activating welfare recipients by increasing welfare-to-work programmes and job search enforcement. We evaluate the three most important German welfare-to-work programmes implemented after a major reform in January 2005...
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