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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 …
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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 …
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This paper presents the non-behavioral module of EconLav, a new microsimulation model of the Italian tax-benefit system … describe a number of data quality issues which often arise in the development of a microsimulation model and the strategies …
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The aim of this paper is to make imputations of earnings to observations with missing earnings in the Encuesta Nacional de Ocupaciones y Empleo (ENOE). We present imputations by two methods and also correction of estimations by reweighting observations with reported earnings. Then, we analyze...
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Existing uncertainties about the correct explanations for economic growth and business cycles cannot be settled by aggregative analysis within the neoclassical framework. Current disputes in theory rest largely on ad hoc, casually empirical, assumptions about departures from perfect rationality...
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After the introduction in Section 2, we very briefly sketch out current theoretical and empirical developments in the social sciences. In our view, they all point in the same direction: toward the acute and increasing need for multidisciplinary longitudinal data covering a wide range of living...
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The goal of this paper is to emphasise the importance of the way of handling missing data and its impact on the outcome of empirical studies. Using the 2002 wave of the Spanish Survey of Household Finances (EFF), I study the performance of alternative methods: listwise deletion, non-stochastic,...
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This paper presents the multiple imputation model for the imputation of the missing values of the Austrian Household Survey on Housing Wealth 2008. It is based on Bayesian inference and on the fully conditional specification approach. Both theoretical framework and model specification are...
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The possibilities of time use research approaches for the analysis of the use of media is the focus of this study. After describing previous studies of media analyses time use research is characterised and the particular suitability of its central surveying instruments – stylised survey...
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This study sheds new light on the question of whether or not sentiment surveys, and the expectations derived from them, are relevant to forecasting economic growth and stock returns, and whether they contain information that is orthogonal to macroeconomic and financial data. I examine 16...
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