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 availability becomes more widespread, microsimulation models can be put to hitherto unprecedented uses. Edited by leading experts in the field, this book illustrates recent advances, methodologies and uses of socioeconomic microsimulation in social sciences around the world. It does so by analysing new grounds covered in microsimulation and exploring new applications in traditional fields. As such, the chapters - grouped into five sections: new methods and methodology; pensions; financial crisis and austerity measures; health; and poverty - present recent, innovative and challenging work in various fields that is not just relevant for those in that field, but that might also inspire scholars from the other disciplines to broaden their minds to new and exciting uses of this established methodology.
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 Neutral,
9. Simulating Policy
Alternatives for Public Pensions in Japan,
10. On the Construction of Early
Warning Indicators of Old-Age Poverty: The Index-Building versus the
Microsimulation Approach,
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 in Combating Child Poverty in
Spain,
13. Combining EUROMOD and LIAM Tools for the Development of Dynamic
Cross-sectional Microsimulation Models: A Sneak Preview,
14. An Overview of
Binary Alignment Methods in Microsimulation,
15. Simulating the Expenditures
of Scottish Households: A Two-step Microsimulation Approach to the Cairngorms
National Park,
16. Using Excel as a Front End to a Microsimulation Model on
Energy and Water Concession Pricing,
17. 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? Validating MIDAS Belgium Using a Stylized Model,
20. An
Investigation of the Sensitivity of a Dynamic Microsimulation Model of Urban
Neighbourhood Dynamics, Index
Gijs Dekkers is Senior Researcher at the Directorate General of the Federal Planning Bureau, Belgium, Research Associate at the Centre for Sociological Research CESO, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, and Affiliated Senior Researcher at CEPS/INSTEAD in Luxembourg. He is also chief editor of the International Journal of Microsimulation. Dr Marcia Keegan is a Research Fellow and member of the Income & Wealth Team at NATSEM, University of Canberra, Australia. She is Vice President of the International Microsimulation Association and President of Young Economists Australia. Cathal O'Donoghue is the Head of the Rural Economy Research Centre of Teagasc, the Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority. He is convenor of the UK Department of Work and Pensions' Expert Group on Economic Demography and President of the International Microsimulation Association.
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