Centre for Microsimulation & Policy Analysis
@cempaessex.bsky.social
Based at the Institute for Social and Economic Research, CeMPA is a world-leading centre for research on distributional analysis and microsimulation in the social sciences. Find out more at: https://www.microsimulation.ac.uk/
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.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...
doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...
Invisible gaps: Women’s individual poverty risks and the gendered failings of the adult worker model
Since the early 2000s, welfare states in Europe have shifted their primary focus from providing social protection against labour market risks to the a…
doi.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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.
doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...
doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...
📢 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.
Apply now:
Join our cutting-edge research team to work on dynamic microsimulation (SimPaths) & tackle key policy issues: inequality, ageing, health & more.
Apply now:
Job profile
Department
vacancies.essex.ac.uk
August 7, 2025 at 11:02 AM
📢 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.
Apply now:
Join our cutting-edge research team to work on dynamic microsimulation (SimPaths) & tackle key policy issues: inequality, ageing, health & more.
Apply now:
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
🔗 Register here:
Join the free online introductory course — 12–13 May 2025 (Zoom).
🔹 Microsimulation fundamentals
🔹 Working with UKMOD and EUROMOD tools
🔹 Practical, hands-on sessions
🔗 Register here:
UKMOD Online Introductory Training Course - Centre for Microsimulation and Policy Analysis
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…
www.microsimulation.ac.uk
April 28, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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
🔗 Register here:
Join the free online introductory course — 12–13 May 2025 (Zoom).
🔹 Microsimulation fundamentals
🔹 Working with UKMOD and EUROMOD tools
🔹 Practical, hands-on sessions
🔗 Register here:
Our research on gender differences in job mobility and pay progression among parents in the UK is featured in the Financial Times! 📢📄
Read more here: 🔗 buff.ly/iQDuOO1
#IWD2025 #GenderEquality #MotherhoodPenalty #LabourMarket
Read more here: 🔗 buff.ly/iQDuOO1
#IWD2025 #GenderEquality #MotherhoodPenalty #LabourMarket
Why having a baby remains a career obstacle for women
More mothers work but their earnings and promotions stagnate
buff.ly
March 7, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Our research on gender differences in job mobility and pay progression among parents in the UK is featured in the Financial Times! 📢📄
Read more here: 🔗 buff.ly/iQDuOO1
#IWD2025 #GenderEquality #MotherhoodPenalty #LabourMarket
Read more here: 🔗 buff.ly/iQDuOO1
#IWD2025 #GenderEquality #MotherhoodPenalty #LabourMarket
Reposted by Centre for Microsimulation & Policy Analysis
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...
We are recruiting - Centre for Microsimulation and Policy Analysis
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...
www.microsimulation.ac.uk
February 19, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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...
📢 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:
European Meeting of the International Microsimulation Association
24 - 25 June 2025 at NUI Galway, Galway, Ireland
buff.ly
February 4, 2025 at 9:02 AM
📢 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:
📢 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.
Details: https://buff.ly/40y9oiS
#Microsimulation #PolicyAnalysis
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.
Details: https://buff.ly/40y9oiS
#Microsimulation #PolicyAnalysis
IMA Workshop on Microsimulation practice in government - Centre for Microsimulation and Policy Analysis
*** 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…
buff.ly
January 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
📢 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.
Details: https://buff.ly/40y9oiS
#Microsimulation #PolicyAnalysis
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.
Details: https://buff.ly/40y9oiS
#Microsimulation #PolicyAnalysis
📢 New UKMOD Explore models are now available!
Access web-based tools to analyse the 2025 tax-benefit system for the UK, its nations, and London.
- Create reform scenarios
- Compare distributional impacts
- Now includes indirect taxes
Explore here: https://buff.ly/3Wuxx8N
#UKMOD #TaxBenefit
Access web-based tools to analyse the 2025 tax-benefit system for the UK, its nations, and London.
- Create reform scenarios
- Compare distributional impacts
- Now includes indirect taxes
Explore here: https://buff.ly/3Wuxx8N
#UKMOD #TaxBenefit
2025 UKMOD Explore models available - Centre for Microsimulation and Policy Analysis
New UKMOD Explore models are available for the UK as a whole, its four constituent nations, and London: UKMOD Explore – Centre for Microsimulation and Policy Analysis UKMOD Explore is a web-based…
buff.ly
January 22, 2025 at 7:00 PM
📢 New UKMOD Explore models are now available!
Access web-based tools to analyse the 2025 tax-benefit system for the UK, its nations, and London.
- Create reform scenarios
- Compare distributional impacts
- Now includes indirect taxes
Explore here: https://buff.ly/3Wuxx8N
#UKMOD #TaxBenefit
Access web-based tools to analyse the 2025 tax-benefit system for the UK, its nations, and London.
- Create reform scenarios
- Compare distributional impacts
- Now includes indirect taxes
Explore here: https://buff.ly/3Wuxx8N
#UKMOD #TaxBenefit
UKMOD B2024.21 has been released! This version includes updates from the December Scottish budget, revisions to the BVR and TCO extensions, and new datasets with imputed consumption data for 2019, 2020, and 2021. Download it from the CeMPA website: https://buff.ly/4asAyMm.
Accessing UKMOD - Centre for Microsimulation and Policy Analysis
UKMOD has two interfaces: The latter requires access to three separate components: the software (EUROMOD); the model (coded policy rules); and the input data (baseline microdata, optional): Results…
www.microsimulation.ac.uk
January 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
UKMOD B2024.21 has been released! This version includes updates from the December Scottish budget, revisions to the BVR and TCO extensions, and new datasets with imputed consumption data for 2019, 2020, and 2021. Download it from the CeMPA website: https://buff.ly/4asAyMm.
Microsimulation practice in government.. We're hosting an online workship with International Microsimulation Association & Department for Work and Pensions. Submit abstracts and find out more here: www.microsimulation.ac.uk/about/news/2...
IMA Workshop on Microsimulation practice in government - Centre for Microsimulation and Policy Analysis
The International Microsimulation Association (IMA), in collaboration with the UK Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and the Centre for Microsimulation and Policy Analysis (CeMPA), is organising a...
www.microsimulation.ac.uk
January 6, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Microsimulation practice in government.. We're hosting an online workship with International Microsimulation Association & Department for Work and Pensions. Submit abstracts and find out more here: www.microsimulation.ac.uk/about/news/2...
Reposted by Centre for Microsimulation & Policy Analysis
PhD scholarship with us!! Fab opportunity for your fully funded PhD wth 2 amazing supervisors. Looking at household & individuals living with debts with Money and Pensions Service. Apply now! www.senss.ac.uk/collaborativ...
Collaborative Project 2 — South and East Network for Social Sciences Doctoral Training Partnership
www.senss.ac.uk
January 6, 2025 at 11:45 AM
PhD scholarship with us!! Fab opportunity for your fully funded PhD wth 2 amazing supervisors. Looking at household & individuals living with debts with Money and Pensions Service. Apply now! www.senss.ac.uk/collaborativ...