Edited by leading experts in the field, this book illustrates recent advances, methodologies and uses of socioeconomic microsimulation in social sciences around the world. It does so by analysing new grounds covered in microsimulation and exploring new applications in traditional fields. As such, the chapters -grouped into five sections: new methods and methodology; pensions; financial crisis and austerity measures; health; and poverty- present recent, innovative and challenging work in various fields that is not just relevant for those in that field, but that might also inspire scholars from