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Day 1: Monday 16 March - Day 2: Tuesday 17 March
Roundtable on 18 March 2009
OECD, Conference Centre, 2 rue André Pascal, Paris 16
The Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development, in conjunction with the University of Maryland, is convening an international conference on European perspectives on poverty, inequality and social exclusion, currently scheduled to be held in Paris on March 16-17. The purpose of the conference is to bring together leading scholars from Europe as well as from North America whose research focuses on measures of poverty, inequality and social exclusion along with their uses in policy. The papers presented at the conference will be published by the Oxford University Press in an edited volume. The volume is intended to provide a high level reflection of the European perspective on measures of poverty and inequality and their uses in a policy context for academic and policymaking communities interested in the topic.
Conference Agenda
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9:30-10:00
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Welcome and Introduction Chair: M. Pirog, Indiana University Statements by M. Queisser (OECD) and D. Besharov (University of Maryland) and by C. Stone (US Mission to the OECD)
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Session I: Monetary measures of poverty and inequality in different national settings Chair: S. Jenkins, ISER, University of Essex |
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10:00-10:30
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The OECD approach to measuring income distribution and poverty: Strengths, limits and statistical issues (Paper and PPT) |
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10:30-11:00
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Income indicators in the EU’s open method of coordination (Paper and PPT) |
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11:00-11:30 |
Coffee/Tea |
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11:30-12:00
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Income distribution in new (and old) EU member states (Paper and PPT) by I. Tóth and M. Medgyesi, TARKI |
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12:00-12:30
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Weakly relative poverty (Paper and PPT) |
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12:30-13:00
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Session Discussant: T. Smeeding, University of Wisconsin-Madison / LWS (PPT)
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13:00-14:30 |
Lunch |
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Session II: Broadening measures of income (or resources) |
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14:30-15:00
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Accounting for the distributional effects of in-kind public benefits (Paper and PPT) by H. Sutherland, ISER, Essex and P. Tsakloglou, Athens University |
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15:00-15:30
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Incidence and Welfare Effects of Indirect Taxes (Paper and PPT) |
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15:30-16:00
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Coffee/Tea
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16:00-16:30
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Accounting for imputed and capital income flows in inequality analyses (Paper and PPT) |
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16:30-17:00
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Analysing and measuring social inclusion in a global context (Paper) |
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17:00-17:30
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Accounting for employee benefits: Issues of measurement, valuation and social equivalencies (Paper and PPT) |
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17:30-18:00 |
Session Discussant: D. Johnson, U.S. Census Bureau (PPT) |
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18:00-19:30 |
Cocktail |
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19:30
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Business Dinner for Authors, Discussants and Chairpersons
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Session III: Income levels for social assistance |
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9:30-10:00
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Social assistance schemes in OECD countries: eligibility and benefits |
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10:00-10:30
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Social assistance schemes across the world: Eligibility conditions and benefits (Paper and PPT) |
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10:30-11:00
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The dynamics of social assistance receipt: measurement and modelling issues, with an application to Britain (Paper and PPT) |
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11:00-11:30
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Session Discussant: R. Lerman, American University and Urban Institute, Washington DC (PPT) |
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11:30-12:00 |
Coffee/Tea |
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Session IV: Non-income measures |
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12:00-12:25
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Asset-related measures of poverty and economic stress (Paper and PPT) |
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12:25-12:50
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Constructing a Consumption Aggregate for the Purpose of Welfare Analysis: Principles, Issues and Recommendations Arising from the Case of Brazil (Paper and PPT) |
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12:50-13:00 |
Session Discussant: K. Couch, University of Connecticut (PPT) |
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13:00-14:30 |
Lunch |
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Session V: Multidimensional measures |
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14:30-15:00
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Developing and learning from measures of social inclusion in the European Union |
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15:00-15:30
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Using Non-Monetary Deprivation Indicators to Analyse Poverty and Social Exclusion in Rich Countries: Lessons from Europe? (Paper and PPT)
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15:30-16:00 |
Coffee/ Tea |
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16:00-16:30
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Estimating the extra costs of living for disabled people in the EU (Estimating the extra costs of living for disabled people in the EU and PPT) |
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16:30-17:00
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Poverty redefined as low consumption and low wealth, not just low income: its psychological consequences in Australia and Germany (Poverty redefined as low consumption and low wealth, not just low income: its psychological consequences in Australia and Germany and PPT) |
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17:00-17:30 |
Session Discussant: N. Gilbert, UC Berkeley |
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Concluding Session: Lessons for the US from Europe Chair: D. Besharov (University of Maryland)
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17:30-18:30
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Summing up discussion by R. Burkhauser (PPT), D. Johnson (PPT) and T. Smeeding (PPT) |
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18:30 |
Closing statements by M. Queisser and D. Besharov |
• Conference Papers can be viewed at http://umdcipe.org/conferences/oecdumd
• If you wish to know more about the conference or the Roundtable event, please write to social.contact@oecd.org
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