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Centre for Microsimulation & Policy Analysis
Join us for the online workshop "New Evidence on Benefit Take-Up: Determinants, Measurement, and Policy Implications" on Tuesday, 19 May, 10:00-12:00 (UK time).
More information and the registration form are available here: www.microsimulation.ac.uk/about/events...
UKMOD version B2025.08 is now available, with model updated to reflect policy changes announced in the Government’s Autumn Statement and related OBR Fiscal and Economic Forecast, as well as updated input data.
For more details, see here:
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New study shows that only one in three women fits the adult worker model underpinning European welfare policy. Women’s individual poverty risk is significantly higher, even among full time workers, and tax benefit systems do not close this gap.
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📢 We’re hiring at CeMPA @ISERessex!
Join our cutting-edge research team to work on dynamic microsimulation (SimPaths) & tackle key policy issues: inequality, ageing, health & more.
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Learn to model UK tax-benefit systems with UKMOD.
Join the free online introductory course — 12–13 May 2025 (Zoom).
🔹 Microsimulation fundamentals
🔹 Working with UKMOD and EUROMOD tools
🔹 Practical, hands-on sessions
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Our research on gender differences in job mobility and pay progression among parents in the UK is featured in the Financial Times! 📢📄
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Join our team: Senior Research Officer with our @cempaessex.bsky.social on computational modelling + economic & health inequalities,socio-economic determinants of health, impact of taxes & benefits,economics of ageing, social policy & life course analysis www.microsimulation.ac.uk/about/news/2...
📢 Deadline Extended!
Submit by 10 Feb 2025 for the IMA Workshop on Microsimulation Practice in Government.
🗓️ April 2025 (online)
🎓 Hosted by IMA, DWP & CeMPA Explore the role of microsimulation in policy-making.
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Join our UKMOD Online Introductory Course (28–29 May 2026, on Zoom) and get hands-on with UKMOD and EUROMOD.
Free to attend. All welcome.
Register now: www.microsimulation.ac.uk/about/events...
📢 Call for Papers! The 2025 European Meeting of the International Microsimulation Association will be hosted by @UniOfGalway, 24-25 June. Submissions on microsimulation, agent-based modelling & computational methods welcome. 📅 Deadline: 17 March 2025:
Since the early 2000s, welfare states in Europe have shifted their primary focus from providing social protection against labour market risks to the a…
The course will provide an introduction to UKMOD, the free tax-benefit microsimulation model for the UK and its constituent nations. The course will take place online on Zoom over 2 days (from 10am…
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Online workshop, Tuesday 19 May 10am-12pm This online workshop brings together researchers and policy analysts to discuss new evidence on benefit take-up. The programme is comprised of two parts: 1.…
More mothers work but their earnings and promotions stagnate
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UKMOD version B2025.08 is now available, with model updated to reflect policy changes announced in the Government’s Autumn Statement and related OBR Fiscal and Economic Forecast, as well as updated…
We are looking for a researcher with a keen computational interest to join our team of developers and analysts at CeMPA. The successful candidate will help develop the microsimulation models maintaine...
*** Deadline extended to 10th February 2025 *** The International Microsimulation Association (IMA), in collaboration with the UK Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and the Centre for…
The course will provide an introduction to UKMOD, the free tax-benefit microsimulation model for the UK and its constituent nations. The course will take place online on Zoom over 2 days (from 10am…
