1st Essex Microsimulation Workshop 19 May 2010

Researchers are being invited to submit papers for the 1st Essex Microsimulation Workshop to be held at ISER on 23-24 September 2010.

The workshop is organised by ISER’s EUROMOD team and aims to bring together EUROMOD developers, national teams, users and some of the most prominent scholars in the fiscal microsimulation area.

EUROMOD is a multi-country European wide tax-benefit microsimulation model that provides measures of direct taxes, social contributions, cash benefits as well as market incomes in a comparable way across countries.

There will be three thematic sessions at the workshop:

• Beyond the static effects: behavioural reactions related to labour supply and consumption
• Beyond the monetary income: individual welfare, subjective well-being and public policies
• Beyond the intended effects of the tax-benefit systems: benefit non take up and tax evasion

A final panel session will be devoted to Europe 2020, the new European strategy for “smart, sustainable and inclusive growth”, addressing potential steps towards a new research agenda for the coming years which will exploit the potentiality of EUROMOD as a European wide microsimulation model.

Anyone interested in submitting a paper in one of the thematic sessions should email a long abstract by Friday 18 June to Lucy Brown. Notification of accepted papers will be sent by Friday 2 July.

1. Economic & Social Research Council
2. University of Essex