New pathways in microsimulation

New pathways in microsimulation / by Gijs Dekkers, Marcia Keegan and Cathal O'Donoghue.

Microsimulation as a modelling tool in social sciences has increased in importance over the last few decades. Once restricted to a handful of universities and government departments, as a scientific field it has achieved a new dynamism during the last decade. As computing power increases and data av...

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Main Author: Dekkers, Gijs
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate Publishing Limited, [2014]
Subjects:
Social sciences > Simulation methods.
Economics > Simulation methods.
Econometric models.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Essays.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Reference.
Econometric models
Economics > Simulation methods
Social sciences > Simulation methods
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Editors' Biographies; List of Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Estimating the Small Area Effects of Austerity Measures in the UK; 3 Microsimulation Estimates of the Inequality Impact of the Economic Crisis in Ireland; 4 Simulating the Need for Health- and Elderly Care in Sweden
  • A Model Description of SESIM-LEV; 5 An Australian Disease and Long-term Care Microsimulation Model; 6 Projection of the Supply of Nurses in France: A Microsimulation Model; 7 Gender Aspects of the Norwegian Pension System.
  • 8 The Redistributive Features of the Italian Pension System: The Importance of Being Neutral9 Simulating Policy Alternatives for Public Pensions in Japan; 10 On the Construction of Early Warning Indicators of Old-Age Poverty; 11 How Sensitive is Old-Age Poverty to Financial Crisis? A Microsimulation Experiment for Sweden; 12 Going Regional: The Effectiveness of Different Tax-benefit Policies; 13 Combining EUROMOD and LIAM Tools; 14 An Overview of Binary Alignment Methods in Microsimulation; 15 Simulating the Expenditures of Scottish Households.
  • 16 Using Excel as a Front End to a Microsimulation Model on Energy and Water Concession Pricing17 Modelling Sequences of Events with Chain Graph Models; 18 Education in the Norwegian Microsimulation Model MOSART; 19 What are the Driving Forces behind Trends in Inequality among Pensioners?; 20 An Investigation of the Sensitivity of a Dynamic Microsimulation Model; Index.

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