Eurostat and Statistics Finland International Conference on
"Comparative EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions:
Issues and Challenges"

Helsinki, 6-7 November 2006

Venue:
Statistics Finland
Auditorium - 2nd Floor
Työpajakatu 13
Helsinki, Finland

Starting time: Monday, 6 November at 9.00
Finishing time: Tuesday, 7 November at 13.00.

There will be no general distribution of papers at the venue. Please print out the papers you wish to have.

Monday, 6 November 2006

Registration: 8.00-8.45

1. Opening address and general presentation of EU-SILC (Chair: Ralf Jacob, European Commission) - (9.00 -10.30)

• Opening address (Heli Jeskanen-Sundström, Statistics Finland - 15')
• EU-SILC (Community statistics on Income and Living Conditions): issues and challenges (updated 31.10.2006)
  (Anne Clémenceau and Jean-Marc Museux, Eurostat and Martin Bauer, Statistics Austria - 45')
  (Slides: Clémenceau & Museux) (Slides: Bauer)
• 30 minutes Questions and Answers (Q/A).

Tea & Coffee break (10.30-11.00)

2. Session on "Income measurement in EU-SILC" (Chair: Tony Atkinson, Oxford University, UK) - First part - (11.00 -12.15)

EU-SILC and recommendations of the "Expert Group on Household Income Statistics"

• The Income Concept in EU-SILC: Relevance, Feasibility, Challenges
  (Paul van der Laan, Statistics Netherlands - 20') (Slides)
• Comparability of income data across households/individuals and over time
  (Rolf Aaberge, Statistics Norway - 20') (Slides)
• Discussant: Richard Hauser (University of Frankfurt, Germany) - 20' (Paper)
• 15 minutes Q/A.

Lunch break (12.15-13.30)

3. Session on "Income measurement in EU-SILC" (Chair: Tony Atkinson, Oxford University, UK) - Second part - (13.30 -15.45)

EU-SILC and welfare measurement

• Extreme incomes and the estimation of poverty and inequality indicators from EU-SILC (updated 24.10.2006)
  (Philippe Van Kerm, CEPS/INSTEAD Research Institute, Luxembourg - 20') (Slides)

EU-SILC complex income components

• Measurement of property income in EU-SILC (updated 3.11.2006)
  (Veli-Matti Törmälehto, Statistics Finland - 20') (Slides)
• Assessing the distributional impact of "imputed rent" and "non-cash employee income" in micro-data (Tables)
  (Joachim Frick, Jan Goebel, Markus Grabka (DIW), Germany - 20') (Slides)
• Self-Employment Incomes in the Italian EU-SILC
  (Marco Di Marco, Statistics Italy (ISTAT) - 20') (Slides)
• Income in EU-SILC - Net/Gross Conversion Techniques for building and using EU-SILC Databases
  (Carlos Farinha Rodrigues, ISEG Institute, Portugal- 20') (Slides)
• Discussant: Stephen Jenkins (University of Essex, United Kingdom) - 20' (Slides)
• 15 minutes Q/A.

Tea & Coffee break (15.45-16.15)

4. Session on "Non-Income dimensions in EU-SILC" (Chair: Eric Marlier, CEPS/INSTEAD Research Institute, Luxembourg) - (16.15 -18.30)

• Health variable in EU-SILC
  (Xander Koolman, Erasmus University Medical Center, The Netherlands - 20') (Slides)
• Material deprivation and poor housing
  (Anne-Catherine Guio, IWEPS Institute, Belgium -
  Isabelle Engsted-Macquet, European Commission -20') (Slides)
• The differential access of women and men to employment and income:
  evidence from the EU-SILC
  (Terry Ward, Applica, Brussels - 20') (Slides)
• Social Class Variation in Income Poverty, Deprivation and Consistent Poverty: An Analysis of EU-SILC (Tables)
  (Dorothy Watson, ESRI Research Institute, Ireland- 20') (Slides)
• Discussants: Brian Nolan (ESRI Research Institute, Ireland),
  Danièle Meulders (Free University of Brussels, Belgium) (Slides: Meulders) - 25'
• 30 minutes Q/A

Closing of session at 18.30, followed by a social event

Tuesday, 7 November 2006

5. Session on "Data quality and comparability in EU-SILC" (Chair: Lucile Olier, Statistics France (INSEE), France) - (9.00 -10.30)

• Issues in data quality and comparability in EU-SILC
  (Vijay Verma, University of Siena, Italy - 30') (Slides)
• The EU-SILC in comparative income distribution research: design and definitions in international perspective
  (Markus Jäntti, Åbo Akademi University, Finland - 20') (Slides)
• Discussant: Andrea Brandolini (Bank of Italy) (Slides) -20'
• 20 minutes Q/A.

Tea & Coffee break - (10.30-11.00)

6. Session on "EU-SILC to be used for national and comparative EU monitoring of some key aspects of social protection and social inclusion" (chaired by Anne Clémenceau, EUROSTAT, European Commission) - (11.00 -12.40)

• Feedback from sessions on "Income measurement in EU-SILC", "Non-Income dimensions in EU-SILC"
  and "Data quality and comparability in EU-SILC" by session chairs (15 minutes)
• Using the EU-SILC for policy simulation: prospects, some limitations and some suggestions (updated 3.11.2006)
  (F. Figari - H. Levy - H. Sutherland - University of Essex, United Kingdom - 20') (Slides)
• Interventions by panellists (40 minutes) (questions):
      European Commission : Ralf Jacob, DG EMPL
      Indicators Sub-Group of the social protection committee: David Stanton, ISG chair (Slides)
      OECD representative: Michael Förster
      Academic experts:
                   István Tóth (TÁRKI Institute, Hungary) (Slides)
                   Bea Cantillon (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
• 25 minutes Q/A.

7. Conclusions by Michel Glaude (EUROSTAT, European Commission) - 20'

End of Conference at 13.00

Lunch

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Last updated 14.11.2006