Jedes Steuer-, und Transfersystem ist nur so gut wie seine Adaptierungsfähigkeit an die sich laufend ändernden Rahmenbedingungen. Dieser Überzeugung folgend wurde am Österreichischen Institut für Familienforschung an der Universität Wien die Mikrosimulationsplattform TATRAS.at entwickelt....

In this paper we attempted to chart the impact of the early part of Ireland's economic crisis from 2008-2010 on the distribution of income. In order to decompose the impact of components of income, we utilised a microsimulation methodology the EU-SILC User Database. In order to do this we had to...

With increasing numbers of young people participating in higher education in Ireland and a heavy reliance of higher education institutions on state funding, the introduction of an alternative finance system for Ireland has been muted over the past number of years. However, no study has been...