Vienna EUROMOD Workshop, 17-18 September 2018

DESCRIPTION

The European Centre together with ISER/University of Essex (United Kingdom) organised the Vienna EUROMOD Workshop, taking place at the Austria Trend Hotel Ananas 17-18 September 2018.

The Workshop comprised the following sessions:

• Tax-benefit microsimulation in Austria (17 September, morning)
• Western BalkanMod initiative of the Eastern European Social Policy Network (17 September, afternoon)
• New research directions using EUROMOD (18 September, morning)

The Vienna EUROMOD Workshop focused on researchers and public representatives with expertise in social protection as well as tax-benefit microsimulation from Austria and the Western Balkan countries, and even beyond (EU, EaP-Eastern Partnership countries, etc.).

For more information, click on the agenda.

Presentations on 17 September 2018

Morning sessions

• Silvia Rocha-Akis and Marian Fink: Family bonus plus – The new tax relief for families in Austria
• Markus Tiefenbacher: Introduction of behavioural responses to EUROMOD - Applying the Austrian family tax credit
• Michael Fuchs & Katarina Hollan: Simulation of a basic security for children in Austria
• Paul Eckerstorfer: Overview on simulations carried out by the Parliamentary Budget Office
• Florian Wakolbinger: Low-wage employment and the reform of the Austrian tax-benefit-system

Afternoon sessions

• Saša Ranđelović: SRMOD – development, applications and future plans
• Marjan Petreski: The modelling exercise for building tax and benefit microsimulation model for Macedonia
• Nermin Oruć: Estimating distributional effects of proposed changes of labour legislation in BiH using BiHMOD
• Michael Fuchs & Katarina Hollan: Western BalkanMod initiative

Presentations on 18 September 2018

Morning sessions

• Sarah Kuypers, Francesco Figari, Gerlinde Verbist: Redistribution in a joint income-wealth perspective: a cross-country comparison
• Salvador Barrios, Alberto Tumino, Wouter Van Der Wielen: Unemployment benefits expenditure across the business cycle. An assessment using EUROMOD
• Katrin Gasior, Pasquale Recchia: The use of hypothetical household data for policy learning – EUROMOD HHoT baseline indicators
• Olivier Bargain, Xavier Jara, David Rodriguez: Learning from your neighbor: tax-benefit systems swaps in Latin America
• Carlo Fiorio, Tommaso Fratini, Andrea Riganti: Migration: impact on tax and social benefits in the EU
• Martina Pezer, Slavko Bezeredi, Chrysa Leventi: The distributional impact of local social benefits in Croatia
• Katrin Gasior, Chrysa Leventi, Michael Noble, Gemma Wright, Helen Barnes: The distributional impact of tax and benefit systems in six African countries
• Silvia Avram, Daria Popova: Do taxes and benefits equalize the incomes of men and women in different household types? Evidence from 8 European countries

Read more about the event on the EESPN.

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