Static microsimulation models like POLIMOD are designed to assess the effects of current or prospective tax and benefit reforms. Since the purpose of POLIMOD is to inform policy, the accuracy of the model ouput is a key concern. Thus, a significant problem faced in the construction of such...

This paper describes how the 1994/95 and the 1995/96 Family Expenditure Survey (FES) were used to produce one of the four datasets that act as microdata input for POLIMOD, the dataset containing information on household expenditure. The other three datasets produced from the FES and used as...

This research note describes the principle features of the Irish tax-transfer system and describes how the system is simulated in the Irish module in Eur6. Eur6 is a prototype 6 country integrated tax-benefit microsimulation model which has been constructed as part of the EUROMOD project. A...