1 Introduction -- 2 The Spatial Policy Context of Economic, Agricultural and Environmental Change in Rural Ireland -- 3 … A Review of Microsimulation for Policy Analysis -- 4 The SMILE Model: Construction and Calibration -- 5 Validation … Issues and the Spatial Pattern of Household Income -- 6 Farm Level Spatial Microsimulation Modelling -- 7 Conservation and …

extending these transfers in Ireland, where support for low-wage households has been of limited scope. The employment and … poverty effects of alternative policies are analyzed thanks to counterfactual simulations built using a micro-simulation model …, the Living in Ireland Survey 2001 and labour supply estimations. Firstly, we study the effect of recent extensions of the …

we utilize a dynamic microsimulation model developed for Ireland to simulate the impact of both an income contingent loan …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 …