Statistical & Social Inquiry Society of Ireland Meeting

Venue: CSO, Skehard Road, Cork

A meeting of the Statistical & Social Inquiry Society of Ireland will take place on Thursday, 4th October 2012, starting at 4:00 pm, in the CSO, Skehard Road, Cork.

Claire Keane, Tim Callan, Michael Savage and John Walsh (ESRI) will present a paper titled "Identifying Policy Impacts in the Crisis: Microsimulation Evidence on Tax and Welfare".

Abstract:
Ireland’s banking, property and fiscal crises, combined with a worldwide “Great Recession” have had severe implications for household incomes. Particular attention has focused on how incomes at various levels have been affected by tax and welfare policy responses to the overall crisis. This paper describes how SWITCH, the ESRI tax-benefit model, has been rebased to use data from SILC 2010, capturing the major fall in household incomes and rise in unemployment. Selected analyses based on 2008 and 2010 data are reported, to give insights into the distributional and incentive impacts of tax and welfare policy up to 2012.

The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland is an all-Ireland body that has been in continuous existence since 1847. The Society organises six or so public meetings each year at which papers are read followed by an open forum discussion. The Society provides a unique meeting ground for discussion between decision-makers in the business, public service, trade union, professional, academic and research communities.