EUROMOD Newsletter – Joint Research Centre (JRC)

The user interface is the graphical view through which you interact with EUROMOD, is what you see when you open EUROMOD. We are considering the possibility to build a new EUROMOD user interface, in order to make it more efficient, flexible and user friendly.

Please click here to access the survey. It will remain open until 31 December 2022.

Your ideas and suggestions would be most welcome!

The EUROMOD Annual Meeting and Research Workshop took place from 28 to 30 September 2022 in Prague, co-organised by the Czech EUROMOD National Team based at the Center for Economic Research and Graduate Education - Economics Institute (CERGE-EI) and the EUROMOD team at JRC. The events gathered more than 100 participants, including JRC staff, representatives from partner DGs, members of the 27 EUROMOD National Teams and several invited experts.

The European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan put forward a number of initiatives aiming at reducing socio-economic inequalities and poverty. One of them was for the Commission to adopt in 2022 guidance to Member States on making greater use of distributional impact assessments (DIAs).

On the 28th of September, the European Commission proposed a Council Recommendation on adequate minimum income schemes. This proposal aims at combating social exclusion by ensuring adequate social safety nets, and in particular minimum income schemes, allowing persons lacking sufficient resources to live in dignity, as laid down by principle 14 of the European Pillar of Social Rights. Among the specific objectives of the initiative, improving the adequacy of income support and the coverage and take-up of minimum income schemes take a central role.

Hannes has recently joined the EUROMOD team. He works on the development and maintenance of EUROMOD, and contributes to the assessment of tax-benefit policies. Before joining the JRC, Hannes worked as a functional analyst for a health insurance fund.

He is currently a PhD candidate at KU Leuven and holds a M.Sc. in European Studies and a M.Sc. in Economics and has a passion for programming.

His main research interests are in the fields of public and welfare economics and more specifically in the areas of microsimulation modelling, non-parametric welfare analysis, (optimal) income-tax reform analysis, and incorporation of fairness considerations in welfare measures.

The Austrian EUROMOD national team is composed of Michael Fuchs, Leonard Geyer and Felix Wohlgemuth. Let's find out more about them!

A list of recent publications using EUROMOD, including direct links.

JRC recently gave an online technical session on the creation of EUROMOD input data based on alternative data sources, such as personal income tax returns, population registers and social insurance records.

We also delivered the 3-day general EUROMOD training course, which included sessions on microsimulation models and their applications, input data, model and software, along with hands-on exercises on the main EUROMOD functions and tools.

The material and slides of the technical session and the training course can be found here.