To work or not to work? How high childcare costs and taxes are discouraging women across Europe

A new study, funded by the Directorate General for Justice at the European Commission, examines work disincentives for secondary earners in Europe created by formal tax-benefit policies and implicit taxes such as out-of-pocket childcare costs.

The six uses of EUROMOD underpinning the new policy ideas of preeminent economist Sir Anthony Atkinson

Leading economist Sir Anthony Atkinson has used EUROMOD to calculate the impacts of six of the 15 measures to reduce inequality in his new manifesto, published in his latest book “Inequality: What can be done?”

Microsimulation Modelling for Policy Making: understanding the effects of policy reforms

The Directorate Generale for Employment at the European Commission hosted a one-day conference in Brussels highlighting recent policy-relevant analysis using EUROMOD

New EUROMOD research shows 'triple locking' child benefits in UK would take 310,000 children out of absolute poverty

UK children are more likely to be in poverty than pensioners. Modelling by ISER researchers, commissioned by the End Child Poverty Coalition, shows the potential impact of the Government’s ‘triple lock’ pensions strategy if applied to child benefits

Professor Nick Buck is new ISER Director

Nick is currently Director and Principal Investigator of Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and has served as Deputy Director at ISER, since 1994, and as Director of the UK Longitudinal Studies Centre since 2001.

Expert workshop ‘Evaluating the effect of Childcare policies: improving comparative research tools’

InGRID workshop, 9-11 September at the University of Essex, open to researchers engaged in the topic of the distributive and labour supply impact of childcare policies, administrators collecting and processing data on national childcare policies, policy-makers and international organisations

Poor lose and rich gain from direct tax and benefit changes since 2010 – without cutting the deficit at all

A new study by ISER and LSE using EUROMOD finds the poor did lose the most under the Coalition policies on tax and benefits while the top 5% gained and the deficit remained undented.

Equity and Efficiency in the Latvian Tax-Benefit System

A new policy brief uses the Latvian component of EUROMOD to analyse the equity and efficiency of the Latvian tax-benefit system.