Cost of housing overburdening for families in UK, Greece, Bulgaria, Denmark, Germany and Romania

Inflated house prices and high rents in major cities are damaging the employment prospects for millions of young workers across the European Union, according to a new World Bank report, using our microsimulation tool EUROMOD, for key analysis

Universal Basic Income – presenting new research at the ESRC Festival of Social Science

Experts discuss the latest research findings at our open Westminster event on 5 November and consider how or whether the increasingly popular idea of a universal basic income could help reduce poverty and increase living standards

New research on microsimulation models for developing countries

New studies for the SOUTHMOD project presented at the international Think Development Think WIDER conference in Helsinki

Income-based policies in Scotland – how would they affect health and health inequalities?

New NHS Scotland report tests policy ideas using our tax-benefit microsimulation model to see the potential impact on premature death rates and other health inequalities

New analysis from EUROMOD in World Bank flagship report on Europe and Central Asia

'Toward a New Social Contract : Taking on Distributional Tensions in Europe and Central Asia’ proposes three overall policy principles to help address rising inequality and increased vulnerability in society

Professor Matteo Richiardi takes over as the new Director of EUROMOD

Leading our innovative research in microsimulation, Professor Richiardi takes over from Professor Holly Sutherland on 1 October 2018.

New flash estimates of poverty risk published by the European Commission

Using our tax benefit microsimulation model EUROMOD to provide policy makers with new estimates of 2017 poverty and income inequality levels in European countries

Challenging poverty in developing countries – the impact of our innovation in microsimulation in Mozambique

New spin-off models based on EUROMOD, our tax-benefit microsimulation model developed at Essex, are informing effective policies to combat poverty in developing countries