2009. New frontiers in Microsimulation Modelling, Part III. Eds A Zaidi, A Harding, P Williamson. Ashgate.

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Bo Rothstein: Should the Swedish Public Health Care be Nationalized?

Research seminar with Bo Rothstein, who holds the August Röhss Chair in Political Science at University of Gothenburg, a position established by a donation to the university in 1901. His research conc

This handbook explains the simulation model IFSIM, which is an agent based simulation model written in JAVA. The model is constructed for analyzing demographic and economic issues and its aim is to in

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After having illustrated both theoretical and empirical sides of the debate on the ability of a pension system to fulfill its aim with an aging population, the paper makes two main claims: the debate