EUROMOD Update
 


02/2009 - 01/2012

Contact: Orsolya Lelkes

Aims
A major EUROMOD development project is being supported by the European Commission DG-EMPL with the key objective to improve and extend EUROMOD’s usefulness as a tool for policy-relevant research and policy monitoring. This will involve
  1. updating EUROMOD to cover recent policy systems;
  2. enlarging EUROMOD from 19 countries to cover all 27 Member States
  3. upgrading EUROMOD to operate using EU-SILC (European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions) data as the input database;
  4. re-building the “old” EU-15 using the most recent version of EUROMOD software; and
  5. developing methods and processes that facilitate the efficient updating of EUROMOD in the future.
In doing so the project will encourage the widest use of EUROMOD in research and policy analysis at the national and international levels. The project began in February 2009 and will last 3 years. The aim is to upgrade or newly construct in EUROMOD a selection of 9 or 10 countries each year, and to then update them in subsequent year(s).

The work is being carried out by the EUROMOD core developer team, based mainly in ISER, in collaboration with a group of national teams. The European Centre is responsible for establishing contacts and working relationships in the New Member States in order to explore the feasibility of bringing them into EUROMOD.

A project Steering Group has been established, under the chairmanship of Sir Tony Atkinson.

Project Deliverables
Feasibility Study, Latvia (tax-benefit systems 2006-2009)
Feasibility Study, Slovakia (tax-benefit systems 2006-2009)

External project collaborator: Country Teams for the New Member States
External head of project: Holly Sutherland, ISER
Head of project EC: Orsolya Lelkes
Project team EC: Orsolya Lelkes, Frédérique Hoffmann, Michael Fuchs, Horacio Levy
Financed by: European Commission, DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities