Analysing welfare reform in a microsimulation-AGE model: The value of disaggregation

Economic Modelling

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 422-439

  Arntz, Melanie ^a   Boeters, Stefan ^b   Gürtzgen, Nicole ^a   Schubert, Stefanie ^a,c  

^a CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

^b CPB NETHERLANDS BUREAU FOR ECONOMIC POLICY ANALYSIS   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Applied general equilibrium; Discrete working time choice; Labour market reform; Logit model; Microsimulation; Wage bargaining

Indexed keywords

EID: 40649106234     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2007.07.001     Document Type: Article

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