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The microsimulation community would be interested in this newly published
book that provides excellent information on the tax and benefit
microsimulation models in Europe and their uses.
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New European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research Vienna
publication:
Lelkes, Orsolya/ Sutherland, Holly (Eds.) (2009) Tax and Benefit
Policies in the Enlarged Europe: Assessing the Impact with
Microsimulation Models. Public Policy and Social Welfare Vol. 35 (A
Series Edited by Bernd Marin, European Centre). Aldershot (UK): Ashgate.
The book is one of the first systematic collections of studies based on
the European tax-benefit microsimulation model, and has a specific focus
on Eastern Europe, within a comparative European perspective. It
provides novel analysis on the impact of tax and benefit systems on
individuals' incomes and work incentives. Not only actual policies are
assessed, but hypothetical scenarios of interest to policy-makers as
well, for example the introduction of flat taxes.
The central premise of the book is that optimal policy decisions need to
be informed by detailed empirical evidence, and it provides a powerful
presentation on how complex information on the interaction of specific
tax and cash benefit policy instruments can be presented in a concise
and comprehensible way.
Book page with more details and the sample chapter "An Enlarged Role for
Tax-benefit Models" by Sir Anthony B.Atkinson:
http://www.euro.centre.org/detail.php?xml_id=1479
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Asghar ZAIDI
Director Research (on leave to OECD)
European Centre for Social Welfare
Policy and Research
(Affiliated to the United Nations)
Berggasse 17, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
Phone: (+43-1) 319 45 05 - 26
Fax: (+43-1) 319 45 05 - 19
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http://www.euro.centre.org
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