Gender Impact of Tax and Benefit Changes: A Microsimulation Approach

October 3, 2014
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An innovative approach to examine the gender impact of tax, welfare and public-sector pay changes has been developed by the ESRI. The ESRI’s new Microsimulation Method for Equality Analysis (MMEA) uses the Institute’s tax benefit model to assess the impacts of policy change on men and women, based on a large-scale nationally representative survey.