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Creating National Poverty Profiles and Growth Incidence Curves with Incomplete Income or Consumption Expenditure Data: An Application to Bolivia
Spatz, Julius; Klasen, Stephan; Grosse, Melanie - 2006
In many developing countries, there does not exist a time series of nationally representative household budget or income surveys, while there often are surveys of regions as well as nationally representative Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296009
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Public pensions, changing employment patterns, and the impact of pension reforms across birth cohorts - a microsimulation analysis for Germany
Geyer, Johannes; Steiner, Viktor - 2010
We analyze the impact of changing employment patterns and pension reforms on the future level of public pensions across … birth cohorts in Germany. The analysis is based on a microsimulation model which accounts for cohort effects in individual … pensions across cohorts taking into account changing demographics and recent pension reforms. Simulations show that pension …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273130
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Old-age poverty: The household perspective : a microsimulation approach of pension entitlements in Germany
Finkler, Sebastian - 2019
the means-tested minimum pension. The microsimulation analysis also provides important findings regarding the extent of … entitled beneficiaries. Whilst 30% of all new pensions would benefit from an individual perspective, after means-testing only 3 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099080
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Albanian Challenges towards an Efficient Pension System
Idrizi, Olgerta; Shahini, Besa - 2018
Pensions' reform in most Western, Central and Eastern European countries is one of the most important topics relevant …, unemployment rate or expected indexation of wages and pensions, are be sourced by the Albanian Ministry of Finance and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011920427
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Calculating benefits of infrastructural investment
Zoellig, Christof; Axhausen, Kay W - 2010
The paper continues the ongoing discussion about the concept of accessibility and its applicability to infrastructural appraisal. David Metz states that travel time savings disappear in a long term perspective and to empirically untested "constant travel time budget" literature. Metz therefore...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011332703
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Efficiency and equity aspects of energy taxation
Vandyck, Toon - 2013
Equilibrium (CGE) model with a microsimulation framework that exploits the rich detail of household-level data. The results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011397517
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The Effects of DR-CAFTA in Nicaragua A CGE-Microsimulation Model for Poverty and Inequality Analysis
Colombo, Giulia - 2008
In this paper, we build a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE)-microsimulation model for the economy of Nicaragua … the CGE model, and then it is passed onto the microsimulation model through a vector of changes in some chosen variables …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301453
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On income tax avoidance - the case of Germany revisited
Fauser, Hannes - 2019
precisely as possible in a microsimulation model. Results confirm findings in the literature claiming that tax avoidance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099112
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The Biological Standard of Living in Zurich during WWI
Floris, Joël; Müller, Consuela; Woitek, Ulrich - 2015
The paper analyzes the class specific biological standard of living in the city of Zurich during World War I. We find an increase of aver- age human stature for lower class conscripts born during this period, while the average height of conscripts from the upper and middle class stagnated or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011301505
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The Ranking Measure of Life Satisfaction: A Constructive Critique
Köke, Sonja; Perino, Grischa - 2015
Life satisfaction (LS) is used as a welfare-measure in many different ways to inform about what makes people better off and even to quantify tradeoffs between different things like putting a monetary value on environmental goods. All these welfare analyzes rely on the ability of the measurement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011301765