1. Introduction L. Mitton, H. Sutherland and M. Weeks Part I. New Directions for Microsimulation: 2. The unit of analysis in microsimulation models for personal income taxes fiscal unit or household? A. Decoster and G. Van Camp 3. Assessing the direct and indirect effects of social policy: integrating the input-output and tax microsimulation models at Statistics Canada G. Cameron and R. Ezzedin 4. A microsimulation analysis of the distribution of the indirect tax burden among Greek households G. Kaplanoglou 5. Can we do better comparative research using microsimulation models? Lessons from the Micro-Analysis of Pensions Systems K. Rake 6. Integrating output in EUROMOD: an assesment of the sensitivity of multi-country microsimulation results C. O'Donoghue, H. Sutherland and F. Utili 7. The impact of demographic and other changes on expenditure on pharmaceutical benefits in 2020 in Australia A. Walker, R. Percival and A. Harding 8. Public pensions in a dynamic microanalytic framework: the case of France C. Bonnet and R. Mahieu 9. Validation of longitudinal dynamic microsimulation models: experience with CORSIM and DYNACAM S. Caldwell and R. J. Morrison 10. Charging for care in later life: an exercise in dynamic microsimulation R. Hancock 11. Individual alignment and group processing: an application to migration processes in DYNACAN D. Chenard 12. Unemployment insurance and labour mobility: analysis using a new Swedish microsimulation model N. Swan 13. Joint labour supply of married couples: efficiency and distribution effects of tax and labour market reforms R. Aaberge, U. Colombino, S. Strom and T. Wennemo 14. Transition estimators in discrete choice models A. Duncan and M. Weeks.