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Creating National Poverty Profiles and Growth Incidence Curves with Incomplete Income or Consumption Expenditure Data: An Application to Bolivia

Spatz, Julius; Klasen, Stephan; Grosse, Melanie - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2006

In many developing countries, there does not exist a time series of nationally representative household budget or income surveys, while there often are surveys of regions as well as nationally representative Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an...

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Creating National Poverty Profiles and Growth Incidence Curves with Incomplete Income or Consumption Expenditure Data: An Application to Bolivia

Grosse, Melanie; Klasen, Stephan; Spatz, Julius - Ibero-Amerika Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (IAI), … - 2005

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Matching Household Surveys with DHS Data to Create Nationally Representative Time Series of Poverty: An Application to Bolivia

Grosse, Melanie; Klasen, Stephan; Spatz, Julius - Courant Research Centre PEG - 2009

In many developing countries, there does not exist a time series of nationally repre- sentative household budget or income surveys, while there often are urban household surveys as well as nationally representative Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This...

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Cross-validating administrative and survey datasets through microsimulation and the assessment of a tax reform in Luxembourg

Liégeois, Philippe; Berger, Frédéric; Islam, Nizamul; … - Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research … - 2009

Using EUROMOD, we cross-validate two types of micro-data presently available in the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg, administrative data on one hand and survey data on the other hand. While administrative data, extracted from the recently implemented Social Security Data Warehouse, contain information...

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External Shocks in a Small Open Economy: A CGE-Microsimulation Analysis

Ahmed, Vaqar; O'Donoghue, Cathal - Department of Economics, National University of Ireland - 2009

sector CGE model with a detailed microsimulation model to study the effects of changes in foreign savings and import prices …

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External Shocks in a Small Open Economy: A CGE - Microsimulation Analysis

Ahmed, Vaqar; O'Donoghue, Cathal - In: Lahore Journal of Economics 15 (2010) 1, pp. 45-90

equilibrium (CGE) model with a microsimulation model to study the effects of changes in foreign savings and import prices faced by … decline in exports are textiles, leather, cement, and livestock. In this simulation food and oil prices decline and the … prices of petroleum or industrial raw material leads to a reduction in exports. In this simulation the crop sector is …

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Taxation Reforms: a CGE-Microsimulation Analysis for Pakistan

Ahmed, Saira; Ahmed, Vagar; Abbas, Ahsan - Partenariat en Politiques Économiques (PEP), … - 2010

This paper provides an ex ante assessment of taxation reforms being considered in Pakistan, in order to widen the tax base and rationalise the rate structure of different taxes. Amongst the main proposals, those focusing on sales tax and agricultural direct taxes seem relatively more attractive....

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On linking microsimulation and applied GE by exact aggregation of heterogeneous discrete-choice making agents

Magnani, Riccardo; Mercenier, Jean - Théorie Économique, Modélisation, Application … - 2007

Our paper contributes to bridge the gap between the microsimulation’s approach and applied GE models, by making use of …

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Microsimulation as a Tool for Evaluating Redistribution Policies

Bourguignon, François; Spadaro, Amedeo - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2006

During the last 20 years, microsimulation models have been increasingly applied in qualitative and quantitative … analysis of public policies. This paper discusses microsimulation techniques and their theoretical background as a tool for the … analysis of public policies. It next analyses basic principles for using microsimulation models and interpreting their results …

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Child Poverty and Family Transfers in Southern Europe

Matsaganis, Manos; Levy, Horacio; Mercader-Prats, Magda; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

and Portugal. Using the European microsimulation model EUROMOD, the paper first assesses the distributional impact of …

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