Presentations, policy and projects at the workshop and annual meeting in Zagreb

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.

Austrian media attention focuses on European Centre report

A technical report by Vienna’s European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research received major attention in Austrian media and politics.

New EUROMOD Technical Note series

A new EUROMOD Technical Note series focuses on the technical development of the model.

Announcing ISER's new Director: Professor Emily Grundy

Professor Grundy, currently Professor of Demography at the London School of Economics, will join ISER as Director and Professor of Population Science in October

New EUROMOD outputs provide updates to existing series

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.

Ecuadorian government training for new microsimulation model for policy analysis

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.

EUROMOD analysis of economic and social policies in European Commission Country Reports

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.

ECUAMOD moves closer with visit from IAEN colleagues

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.