In Mikroanalysen steht der Einzelne, das Individuum - sei es als Person, Haushalt, Unternehmen oder als Organisation - im Vordergrund. Mikroanalysen sind für eine zielgenaue Wirtschafts- und Sozialpolitik fundamental wichtig; erst sie erlauben eine Analyse der von Politik direkt betroffenen....

It is the growing societal interest about the individual and its behaviour in our and "modern" societies which is asking for microanalyses about the individual situation. In order to allow these microanalyses on a quantitative and empirically based level microsimulation models were developed and...

Microdata have become increasingly important for economic and social analyses. One striking problem with almost any practical analysis of microdata, microdata as a singular cross or longitudinal sample or within (static) microsimulation, is to achieve representative results. In this study a...