This essential dimensions of microsimulation as an instrument to analyze and forecast the individual impacts of … alternative economic and social policy measures are surveyed in this study. The basic principles of microsimulation, which is a …-section and life-cycle) approaches are compared to one another. Present and past developments of microsimulation models and their …

income inequality. To these ends, we use rich data from the United States and Norway over the period 1980-2007. We find … educated, we find strong but declining assortative mating by academic major. These findings motivate and guide a decomposition … educational assortative mating accounts for a non-negligible part of the cross-sectional inequality in household income. However …

inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels …

, inequality and poverty. This paper provides equivalence scales based on revealed preference consumption microdata for West …

inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels …

, inequality or poverty. This is true for country specific work or for cross-national comparisons. Researchers generally either use …