Editorial

Abstract

The winter 2023 issue of the International Journal of Microsimulation is published as the International Microsimulation Association heads to its 9 th World Congress (Vienna, Austria, 8 th -10 th January 2024). The issue contains five articles, covering different microsimulation techniques and applications. The first article, by Karl Widerquist and Georg Arndt, is a static tax-benefit analysis of a Universal Basic Income (UBI) scheme for the United Kingdom (UK). The analysis reflects a growing interest in UBI worldwide, and adds to an active discussion of UBI schemes for the UK in particular (see Torry , 2023). The second article, by Montserrat Gonzalez Garibay, contains a review of how retirement decisions are modelled in dynamic microsimulation models (DMSs). The paper fills a gap in the literature, as existing reviews of DMSs (e.g.