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Measuring economic insecurity: Why and How?

‘Job insecurity at the end of the 20th century has given way to income insecurity at the start of the 21st.’ – Andy Haldane, July 2019 Professor Matteo Richiardi, Director of EUROMOD at ISER and Professor of Economics at the University of Essex, will be joining a panel of speakers for talks exploring the current […]

UKMOD: a new, free-to-use, tax-and-benefit microsimulation model for the UK

Tax-benefit microsimulation models are used to answer “what if” questions about the effects of tax and benefit reforms on household incomes and the income distribution. Such analysis is regularly performed for Budget and other Government policy announcements and is also highly relevant for the design of alternative reforms and new policy instruments. Via generous funding […]

The impact of tax-benefit systems in Africa

New briefing published by United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) on using microsimulation to test policies to reduce poverty in six African nations, based on ISER research

Essex EUROMOD team present at IMA 7th World Congress

ISER experts attend Galway conference

ISER experts advise on designing policies to tackle poverty and inequality in Colombia

ISER’s experts in microsimulation have been working alongside Colombian academics and policymakers

Updated release of our tax-benefit microsimulation model EUROMOD

New release includes tax-benefit policies up to 2018 for all 28 EU countries

What could change rising child poverty rates in Scotland?

Dr Paola De Agostini has been working with the research team at the Scottish Parliament on testing policy reforms

ISER research informs new European Commission policy briefs on fairness

Comparative research uses our tax-benefit microsimulation model, EUROMOD, to look at social mobility, regional and inter-generational inequalities