This contribution describes the linkage of microsimulation models and computable general equilibrium (CGE) models using …, microsimulation models allow for detailed labor supply and distributional effects due to policy measures, as individual household data …

Microsimulation methods and models of labor market decisions have attracted a lot of attention as an approach to the …

This paper contributes to the debate about the optimal design of tax-transfer systems. Based on the theory of optimal … taxation, combined with microsimulation and microeconometric techniques we derive the welfare function which makes the current … German tax and transfer system for single women optimal. Furthermore, we compare the welfare function conditional on the …

This paper contributes to the debate about the optimal design of tax-transfer systems. Based on the theory of optimal … taxation, combined with microsimulation and microeconometric techniques we derive the welfare function which makes the current … German tax and transfer system for single women optimal. Furthermore, we compare the welfare function conditional on the …

The Tax-Transfer-Simulation-Model (STSM) is a microsimulation model used for the empirical analysis of the effects of … of private households, and their budgetary (fiscal) effects in Germany. Besides a detailed depiction of the German tax … et al., 2005; 2008). It takes into account the regulations of the tax and transfer system as of 2012. Chapter 2 …