Welfare reform by stealth? Cash benefit recipiency data and its additional value to the understanding of welfare state change in Europe

A Otto, W Van Oorschot - Journal of European Social Policy, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Trends in social protection schemes have been one of the main subjects in comparative
welfare state research, not least since the financial crisis and the austerity measures that …

How do gendered labour market trends and the pay gap translate into the projected gender pension gap? A comparative analysis of five countries with low, middle …

G Dekkers, K Van den Bosch, M Barslund, T Kirn… - Social Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
This article explores how the Gender Pension Gap (GPG)—the relative difference in average
pension received by men and women—might evolve in the future in various European …

[HTML][HTML] Liam2: a new open source development tool for discrete-time dynamic microsimulation models

G De Menten, G Dekkers, G Bryon… - Journal of Artificial …, 2014 - jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk
Most existing microsimulation models have been developed by separate (teams of)
researchers. The drawback of each team working on its own is that they have to put a lot of …

Dynamic models

J Li, C O'Donoghue, G Dekkers - Handbook of microsimulation …, 2014 - emerald.com
A dynamic microsimulation model is a model that simulates the behaviour of micro-units
over time. Orcutt, Greenberger, Kobel, and Rivlin (1961) described the first dynamic …

What are the driving forces behind trends in inequality among pensioners? Validating MIDAS Belgium using a stylized model

G Dekkers - New pathways in microsimulation, 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
Possible future trends in the development of pension adequacy are usually simulated using
dynamic microsimulation models. These models are very complex and include many …

SIDD: An adaptable framework for analysing the distributional implications of policy alternatives where savings and employment decisions matter

J van de Ven - Economic Modelling, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Simulator of Individual Dynamic Decisions, SIDD, is publicly available software
for analysing the distributional effects of policy alternatives. SIDD is a framework, rather than …

[PDF][PDF] Project MIGAPE: Work Package 2: Results of the standard simulations for Belgium

G Dekkers, K Van den Bosch - Deliverable project MIGAPE, 2020 - migape.eu
The goal of the project “MInd the GAp in PEnsions”(MIGAPE) is to analyse gender
differences in pension income, and to do this from various perspectives and communicate …

[PDF][PDF] Project text “Mind the Gap”

G Dekkers, V Hoorens, K Van den Bosch - 2019 - migape.eu
The project of which this report is part is funded by the European Union's Rights, Equality
and Citizenship Programme (2014-2020). The content of this report represents the views of …

[PDF][PDF] Hypothetical prospective simulation of pensions for Luxembourg

P Liégeois, V Vergnat - Deliverable D2, 2020 - migape.eu
MIGAPE is co-funded by the Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme of the European
Union (2014-2020) via Grant Agreement no. 820798. The content of this presentation …

An overview of binary alignment methods in microsimulation

J Li, C O'Donoghue - New Pathways in Microsimulation, 2016 - taylorfrancis.com
This chapter presents a simple model that relates the indexation of pensions in conjunction
with demographic ageing and the retirement age, to the development of inequality of …