MICSIM - Concept, Developments and Applications of a PC-Microsimulation Model for Research and Teaching

FFB Discussion Paper No. 14

43 Pages Posted: 26 May 2009

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Joachim Merz

Research Institute on Professions; Research Institute on Professions; Leuphana University of Lueneburg; Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Date Written: September 1995

Abstract

It is the growing societal interest about the individual and its behaviour in our and 'modern' societies which is asking for microanalyses about the individual Situation. In order to allow these microanalyses on a quantitative and empirically based level microsimulation models were developed and increasingly used for economic and social policy impact analyses. Though microsimulation is known and applied (mainly by experts), an easy to use and powerful PC microsimulation model is hard to find.

The overall aim of this study and of MICSIM - A PC Microsimulation Model is to describe and offer such a user-friendly and powerful general microsimulation model for (almost) any PC, to support the impact microanalyses both in applied research and teaching. Above all, MICSIM is a general microdata handler for a wide range of typical microanalysis requirements. This paper presents the concept, developments and applications of MICSIM. After some brief remarks on microsimulation characteristics in general, the concept and substantive domains of MICSIM: the simulation, the adjustment and aging, and the evaluation of microdata, are described by its mode of operation in principle. The realisations and developments of MICSIM then are portrayed by the different versions of the computer program. Some MICSIM applications and experiences in research and teaching are following with concluding remarks.

Keywords: Economic and Social Policy Analyses, Microsimulation (dynamic and static), Simulation, Adjustment and Evaluation of Microdata, PC Computer Program for Microanalyses in General

JEL Classification: C80, C81, D10, D30, D31, J20

Suggested Citation

Merz, Joachim and Merz, Joachim, MICSIM - Concept, Developments and Applications of a PC-Microsimulation Model for Research and Teaching (September 1995). FFB Discussion Paper No. 14, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1409977 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1409977

Joachim Merz (Contact Author)

Research Institute on Professions ( email )

Lüneburg
Germany

Research Institute on Professions ( email )

Lüneburg
Germany

Leuphana University of Lueneburg

Scharnhorststrasse 1
Lüneburg, 21314
Germany

Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

P.O. Box 7240
Bonn, D-53072
Germany

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