Microsimulation as an instrument to evaluate economic and social programmes

Arbeitspapier

In recent years microsimulation models (MSMs) have been increasingly applied in quantitative analyses of the individual impacts of economic and social programme policies. The suitability of using microsimulation as an instrument to analyze main and side policy impacts at the individual level will be discussed in this paper by characterizing: the general approach and principles of the two general microsimulation approaches: static and dynamic (cross-section and life-cycle) microsimulation, the structure of MSMs with institutional regulations and behavioural response, panel data and behavioural change, deterministic and stochastic microsimulation, the 4M-strategy to combine microtheory, microdata, microestimation and microsimulation, and pinpointing applications and recent developments. To demonstrate the evaluation of economic and social programmes by microsimulation, two examples concerning a dynamic (cross-section and life-cycle) microsimulation of the German retirement pension reform and a combined static/dynamic microsimulation of the recent German tax reform with its behavioural impacts on formal and informal economic activities of private households are briefly described. Evaluating the evaluation of economic and social programmes with microsimulation models finally is followed by concluding remarks about some future developments.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: FFB Diskussionspapier ; No. 5

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Data Collection and Data Estimation Methodology; Computer Programs: General ; Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Microeconomic Data; Data Access ; Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General ; Taxation and Subsidies: Incidence
• Thema: microsimulation ; evaluation of economic and social-political programms ; Mikrosimulation ; Evaluierung von wirtschaftlichen und sozialpolitischen Programmen ; Mikroökonometrie ; Simulation ; Wirkungsanalyse ; Theorie

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Merz, Joachim
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Universität Lüneburg, Forschungsinstitut Freie Berufe (FFB)
• (wo): Lüneburg
• (wann): 1993

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/67458
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ