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Improving Information for Social Policy Decisions -- The Uses of Microsimulation Modeling Volume II, Technical Papers (1991) / Chapter Skim
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... · Taxltran~er parameters control the specific functioning of the tax and transfer programs as represented by the SPSD/M operating characteristics. These parameters include a set that can be created by the commodity tax input/output model (COMTAX)
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... The software development environment supplied with SPSD/M has been designed to facilitate alterations to the existing operating characteristics. For example, if a user needs to redefine the formula for a calculated variable such as total income, the source code module containing 13If the screening software can determine that a household can be rejected based only on original database variables, the tax/transfer system will not be executed.
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