Hosted in June by the Institute of Public Finance in Zagreb, the EUROMOD user community enjoyed a two day workshop on Social Protection Policies and Microsimulation, followed by the closed EUROMOD Annual Project Meeting.
The continuing extension of EUROMOD – both in its policy scope and functionality – will be an important strand in the four-year InGRID-2 research and infrastructure project that formally began 1 May 2017.
A new EUROMOD Technical Note series focuses on the technical development of the model.
Professor Grundy, currently Professor of Demography at the London School of Economics, will join ISER as Director and Professor of Population Science in October
Three new comparative statistical outputs have been released in Spring 2017, including the annual cross-country analysis of the effects of tax-benefit policy reforms in each EU member state.
Xavier Java has been in Ecuador, training government departments and national institutions to use a new microsimulation model, one of several created for developing countries that is based on EUROMOD as part of the SOUTHMOD project.
New analysis of the socio-economic policies of 10 European countries, using EUROMOD, has been published as part of the annual cycle of reports by the European Commission.
In a new ISER blog, researchers Katrin Gasior and Olga Rastrigina describe how 'nowcasting' can be used to predict more timely at-risk-of-poverty rates in each EU country.
At the end of November, ISER welcomed three visitors from Ecuador’s Instituto de altos estudios nacionales (IAEN) – Mauricio Cuesta, Marcelo Varela and César Amores – who are contributing to the final stages of developing ECUAMOD, a tax-benefit microsimulation model for Ecuador.
The latest release of EUROMOD includes tax-benefit policy systems updated to 2016 for all EU-28 countries and input data updated to 2014 for the majority.
