Our Research Fellow and member of BiHMOD team, Nikolina Obradović, has been accepted and won scholarship at EUROMOD – HHoT Summer School hosted at the Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy, University of Antwerpen from 28 to 30 September 2016. You can find more information about the event here.
The InGRID project is funded by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration under Grant Agreement No 312691 and involves 17 European partners. Referring to the EU2020-ambition of Inclusive Growth, the general objectives of InGRID – Inclusive Growth Research Infrastructure Diffusion – are to integrate and to innovate existing, but distributed European social sciences research infrastructures on ‘Poverty and Living Conditions’ and ‘Working Conditions and Vulnerability’ by providing transnational data access, organizing mutual knowledge exchange activities and improving methods and tools for comparative research.
The aim of the summer school is to familiarise participants with concepts, structure and functioning of HHoT and EUROMOD. EUROMOD is a state of the art tax benefit microsimulation model linking micro data from household surveys and policy legislation in a single use interface. HHOT or the Hypothetical Household Tool is a tool for the simulation of hypothetical families, based on EUROMOD. EUROMOD simulates the different components of a household disposable income for a given year and country. HHoT generates a datasets that EUROMOD will be applying for policy simulations, instead of using a regular micro data file.
EUROMOD allowes for complex policy impact analysis, such as evaluations of policy reforms in terms of poverty, inequality, work incentives and government budgets, assessment of EU wide policies or estimating the impact of changining population characteristics on the redistributive effects of existing policies. HHoT on the other hand does not allow for redistributive effects but it allows to better understand changes in tax benefit policies, cross national differences in social outcomes and evaluate adequacy, fairness and labout market incentives.
At the end of the course, participants are expected to have a good understanding of how HHoT and EUROMOD work and to be capable of using HHoT for their own purposes.