Dear colleagues,
The Instituto de Altos Estudios Nacionales (IAEN)<http://www.iaen.edu.ec/#1515093028726-3dc72824-2bc9> and UNU-WIDER, in collaboration with the EUROMOD<https://www.euromod.ac.uk/> team at the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)<https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/> at the University of Essex<https://www.essex.ac.uk/> will organize an international conference on income redistribution and the role of tax-benefit systems in Latin America, on 5-6 July 2018, in Quito, Ecuador:
https://www.wider.unu.edu/event/income-redistribution-and-role-tax-benefit-systems-latin-america
The keynote will be delivered by Professor Olivier Bargain<https://sites.google.com/site/bargainoliv/home> (University of Bordeaux<https://www.u-bordeaux.com/> and Institut Universitaire de France<http://www.iufrance.fr/>). The conference will have parallel sessions with contributed papers and it will also feature a policy round table discussion on ’El rol de los impuestos y las transferencias monetarias en la reducción de la pobreza y desigualdad en Ecuador’.
The conference is part of the activities in the SOUTHMOD project, in which tax-benefit microsimulation models for selected developing countries were built. ECUAMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model for Ecuador, has been developed in collaboration with IAEN, UNU-WIDER, and the EUROMOD team at the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex.
We welcome individual empirical papers studying the role of tax-benefit systems in Latin American countries. Possible topics might cover:
- The effect of taxes and benefits on income inequality and poverty
- Work incentives, labour supply and the role of the tax-benefit system
- Improving social protection for vulnerable groups
- Informality and tax evasion
- Tax-benefit reforms and general equilibrium effects
- Combining survey and administrative data for microsimulation analysis
Papers based on data from other developing regions or developed economies are also welcome as long as they convey a clear message about the role of the tax-benefit system and the relevance of the analysis for Latin American countries.
The deadline for the call for papers is 6 April 2018.
Kind regards,
Xavier Jara
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Subject: REMINDER -- CFP Stream 15 "The Political Economy of Basic Income: Opportunities, Constraints, Trajectories" at ESPAnet 2018
[apologies for cross-posting]
Dear Colleagues
The deadline for submitting your proposals to ESPAnet 2018 (Vilnius, Lithuania — 30 August-1 September) is approaching fast. We invite you to submit a paper to the stream "The Political Economy of Basic Income: Opportunities, Constraints, Trajectories” (Stream 15).
Please submit a paper abstract of about 500 words via the conference website by 19 March 2018: http://www.espanetvilnius2018.fsf.vu.lt/conference/submit-abstract.
Outline: The idea of granting each (adult) citizen an unconditional basic income, independent of means test or work requirement, has made major strides in recent policy debates across Europe. Several countries in Europe and North-America are experimenting with or planning basic income-inspired trials, while in other jurisdictions basic income is considered at the highest level of policy-making. Mainstream policy actors embracing a policy proposal that until very recent was considered to be part of a radically utopian fringe raises a number of policy questions, which we expect the proposed abstracts to cover. What explains the current interest in the basic income proposal? Are we experiencing a genuine window of opportunity firmly embedding basic income into the policy process in mature welfare states, or are we instead witnessing a fad that is likely to fade when feasibility constraints are taken into account? What are the key policy determinants for understanding the feasibility and stability of basic income against the background of established institutions and policy configurations as well as recent developments in European welfare states? Which social, economic and political factors affect the building of a robust basic income constituencies and a stable political coalition across stakeholder groups and political actors? What challenges need to be overcome and which trajectories are most suited to pilot and/or institute a basic income? How must basic income models be adapted to accommodate political and institutional constraints? Does systematic variation in how different welfare regimes respond to political challenges explain the variation in basic income models under consideration? This stream aims to advance the policy debate around basic income by critically examining these and related questions in the context of the European welfare states. Our aim is to put the policy research into basic income on a firm theoretical and empirical footing by selecting contributions that employ insights from recent welfare state and political economy research to examine aspects of basic income design and implementation. We are particularly interested in contributions that investigate novel aspects of and/or adopt novel methodologies in examining the political economy of basic income. We will also give priority to contributions that embrace a distinctively comparative focus to draw out the diversity of opportunities, constraints and trajectories in the basic income debate across European welfare states.
Convenors:
Dr. Jurgen De Wispelaere, Institute for Policy Research, University of Bath, UK, Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Prof. Heikki Hiilamo, Department of Social Policy, University of Helsinki, Finland, Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
best wishes, Jurgen and Heikki
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Jurgen De Wispelaere, PhD
ISRF Political Economy Research Fellow,
Independent Social Research Foundation
Policy Fellow, Institute for Policy Research
University of Bath
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Research: https://bath.academia.edu/JurgenDeWispelaere
