ABSTRACT

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.

chapter 1|10 pages

Introduction

chapter 6|22 pages

Projection of the Supply of Nurses in France

A Microsimulation Model

chapter 8|20 pages

The Redistributive Features of the Italian Pension System

The Importance of Being Neutral

chapter 10|16 pages

On the Construction of Early Warning Indicators of Old-Age Poverty

The Index-Building versus the Microsimulation Approach

chapter 12|20 pages

Going Regional

The Effectiveness of Different Tax-benefit Policies in Combating Child Poverty in Spain

chapter 15|16 pages

Simulating the Expenditures of Scottish Households

A Two-step Microsimulation Approach to the Cairngorms National Park