The Social Protection Policies and Microsimulation Workshop hosted by the Institute of Public Finance in Zagreb, 12-13 June, will bring together researchers, analysts
and policy makers interested in the application
of microsimulation models and related empirical
techniques in economies facing employment
and demographic challenges.
Participants will
be able to exchange their experiences and
discuss the effectiveness, efficiency and equity
of various social protection policies, particularly
those aimed at increasing employment rates and
improving the living standards of families with
children and the elderly.
Plenary speakers already lined up include
ISER’s Holly Sutherland and Daria Popova,
Francesco Figari from the University of Insubria
and Predrag Bejaković from the Institute of
Public Finance Zagreb. They will speak about the
importance of microsimulation in policymaking,
‘policies for children’, ‘making work pay’ policies
and Croatian labour market policies.
Guests
will include policy makers from the Croatian
ministries of social policy and labour.
Offers to present research at the workshop are
now being solicited. Send a paper or abstract
before March 17 to workshop2017@ijf.hr. For
more information on the workshop, go to
www.ijf.hr/eng/workshop2017.
The workshop immediately precedes the Annual EUROMOD Project Meeting for researchers and analysts working with EUROMOD, the tax benefit microsimulation model for the European Union, led by the Institute for Social and Economic Research.