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Cross-validating administrative and survey datasets through microsimulation and the assessment of a tax reform in Luxembourg
Liégeois, Philippe; Berger, Frédéric; Islam, Nizamul; … - 2010
Using EUROMOD, we cross-validate two types of micro-data presently available in the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg … Social Security Data Warehouse, contain information of the whole population of Luxembourg (449,000 observations) in 2003 …, survey data, extracted from the Luxembourg household panel PSELL3/EU-SILC for 2004 (incomes from 2003), is a representative …
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Cross-validating administrative and survey datasets through microsimulation and the assessment of a tax reform in Luxembourg
Liégeois, Philippe; Berger, Frédéric; Islam, Nizamul; … - Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research … - 2009
Using EUROMOD, we cross-validate two types of micro-data presently available in the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg … Social Security Data Warehouse, contain information of the whole population of Luxembourg (449,000 observations) in 2003 …, survey data, extracted from the Luxembourg household panel PSELL3/EU-SILC for 2004 (incomes from 2003), is a representative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008526988
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The insights and illusions of consumption measurements
Battistin, Erich; De Nadai, Michele; Krishnan, Nandini - 2020
While household well-being derives from long-term average rates of consumption, welfare comparisons typically rely on shorter-duration survey measurements. We develop a new strategy to identify the distribution of these long-term rates by leveraging a large-scale randomization in Iraq that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012212691
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India Protection Index : An Objective Measurement of the Economic and Social Well-Being of the Indian Population
Shukla, Rajesh - 2019
The success and failure of any democratic government is gauged in terms of how effectively it has fulfilled its constitutional obligation of enhancing social and economic well-being, particularly the common man. While developed economies use a set of indices to measure well-being, a systematic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012897029
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SWITCH : a tax-benefit model for Ireland linked to survey and register data
Keane, Claire; Doorley, Karina; Kakoulidou, Theano; … - 2022
We document the development and operation of the SWITCH model, Ireland's taxbenefit microsimulation model. Using the EUROMOD platform and process of creating an input model, we discuss adjustments to the underlying data, such as reweighting and uprating, aiming at improving representativeness in...
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Progressive tax reforms in flat tax countries
Barrios Cobos, Salvador; Ivaškaitė-Tamošiūnė, Viginta - 2018
Much of the literature on flat tax reforms has highlighted the benefits of introducing flat personal income tax systems in transition economies. The advocated benefits of flat tax systems range from their simplicity, higher compliance and lower distortionary effects on growth and employment....
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Breaking the Fall : Successful Homeless Interventions in the COVID Pandemic
Flaming, Daniel; Pickens, Seth; Burns, Patrick - 2023
Government income and housing interventions during the COVID pandemic had demonstrable benefits in reducing the growth of homelessness. Comparisons of projected versus actual growth in Los Angeles County from 2020 to 2022 validate the benefit of these interventions.This report offers three types...
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Using Linked Survey and Administrative Data to Better Measure Income : Implications for Poverty, Program Effectiveness and Holes in the Safety Net
Meyer, Bruce D. - 2017
We examine the consequences of underreporting of transfer programs in household survey data for several prototypical analyses of low-income populations. We focus on the Current Population Survey (CPS), the source of official poverty and inequality statistics. We link administrative data for food...
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Lives and Livelihoods : Estimates of the Global Mortality and Poverty Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Decerf, Benoit - 2020
This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Increases in mortality are measured in terms of the number of years of life lost (LY) to the pandemic. Additional years spent in poverty (PY) are conservatively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826740
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Lives and livelihoods: estimates of the global mortality and poverty effects of the COVID-19 pandemic
Decerf, Benoit; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Mahler, … - 2020
This paper evaluates the global welfare consequences of increases in mortality and poverty generated by the Covid-19 pandemic. Increases in mortality are measured in terms of the number of years of life lost (LY) to the pandemic. Additional years spent in poverty (PY) are conservatively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012257792