Publications

2025Technical report (forthcoming): MicroWELT 2.0 LTC Model Description
Working Paper (forthcoming): Projection of Long-Term Care Needs and Care Allowances in Austria
Peer-reviewed article: Demographic Change and the Future of Austria’s Long-Term-Care Allowance: A Dynamic Microsimulation Study
Conference Paper: Is the “OK Boomer” Meme Realistic for Major Public Transfers in Canada? Intergenerational Equity and Long Run Public Policy in Canada
Working Paper: How Do Rising Care Needs Impact the Formal and Informal Care Sectors and Existing Inequalities? Comparing Austria and Spain
Working Paper: Challenges in Long-term Care: Modelling and Quantifying future care needs, arrangements and gaps in ageing, low fertility societies
2024Working Paper: Comparative Modeling of Long-Term Care in Hours
Report: Public Consultation on Care Economy
Working Paper: The Life Course Effects of Care 
Working Paper: How vulnerable are Care Systems to future changes in demand and supply?
2023Peer reviewed article: The effect of educational expansion and family change on the sustainability of public and private transfers
2022Peer reviewed article: Measuring the lifecycle impact of welfare state policies in the face of ageing
Working Paper: Dynamic Simulation of Taxes and Welfare Benefits by Database Imputation
Working Paper: Lifecycle consumption and household structure: A pseudo-panel approach

Simulation tools

MicroWELT simulation software and parameterisation

The MicroWELT 2.0 LTC model is a new, improved and extended x-compatible re-implementation of the dynamic microsimulation platform microWELT currently being developed within the project. It focuses on projecting long-term care (LTC) demand in hours, care arrangements and care gaps.

It is used for a wide range of studies, including long-term care projections, labor force projections, the impact of education, health, and ethnicity on the future labor force, the economic integration of immigrants, the sustainability and adequacy of social security systems, and private and public social transfers (time and money) according to the National Transfer Accounting (NTA) framework.

MicroWELT 2.0 LTC is open source. It is fully documented and designed as a modular platform that can be refined and extended for diverse purposes. X-compatibility refers to the ability to compile the source code in two programming technologies, namely Modgen and its new open source successor openM++.

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