Poverty and social policy in times of crisis: The case of Greece

Two new studies using EUROMOD published by the Policy Analysis Research Unit at Athens University of Economics and Business have found that the Greek social safety net is failing to deal effectively with the country’s ‘New Social Question’: the steep rise in the number of jobless families with children and no income support.

Universal credit pushes poor single parents into further poverty: new study for Gingerbread

Leading parenting charity Gingerbread has published a major academic report by Professor Mike Brewer, Director of the ESRC Centre for Research on Micro-social Change at ISER and Dr Paola De Agostini that looks at the impact on single parent families of the government’s flagship welfare programme, universal credit.

Predicting poverty in Europe: EUROMOD economists meet in Lisbon

Over 60 economists from across Europe met in Lisbon last week to discuss nowcasting poverty, the impact of incentives to work, non-take up of benefit, measures to combat child poverty and other new research using EUROMOD, with representatives from the EU Commission Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, funders of the project.

Winter School in cross country microsimulation

The first winter school on EUROMOD will be held at the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex, from 26th until 28th February 2014.

ISER's Professor Sutherland presents LIS Summer Lecture 2013 in Luxembourg

Holly Sutherland, Research Professor at ISER and Director of EUROMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model for the European Union, recently presented the 2013 LIS Summer Lecture.

Cypriot austerity measures hit middle and higher income families

The pre-bailout austerity measures implemented in Cyprus were both mild and directed more at middle and higher income families rather than the poor. However, the ability of the government to cut social expenditure and or raise taxes while protecting the poor is likely to be limited post-bailout, according to a new EUROMOD study published by ISER.

Simulating a minimum income for Greece

Economists from the Policy Analysis Research Unit at the Athens University of Economics and Business have used EUROMOD, the ISER-based microsimulation unit, to forecast the impact of introducing a minimum guaranteed income.

The evolution of tax and benefit policy in Latvia: what has been the place of distributional considerations?

A new paper published in the Baltic Journal of Economics provides an assessment of selected tax-benefit policy reforms implemented in Latvia in response to the recession using the Latvian component of EUROMOD.