Poverty levels in Europe expected to rise despite first signs of recovery – EUROMOD research

New research from EUROMOD, ISER’s state-of-the-art tax-benefit microsimulation model is showing little improvement in the social situation across Europe despite the first signs of recovery.

IMF Fiscal Policy & Income Inequality policy paper: Evidence from EUROMOD

Drawing on six separate ISER research papers using EUROMOD as well as some additional data provided by ISER researchers, the International Monetary Fund has published a new policy paper on Fiscal Policy and Income Inequality.

ISER research for CPAG on child poverty rates across the EU27

ISER has completed a briefing for the Child Poverty Action Group to provide a comparison of the effect of the 2012 tax-benefit systems on child poverty across the EU27.

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.