2010 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON COMPARATIVE EU STATISTICS ON INCOME
AND LIVING CONDITIONS

Organised by Eurostat and the Network
for the analysis of EU-SILC (Net-SILC)
Hosted by the Central Statistical Office of Poland
In the framework of the 2010 European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion

Warsaw, Hotel Gromada, 25 – 26 March 2010

The initial Net-SILC findings presented and discussed at the Warsaw conference are not publicly available as they were work in progress. Since then, two major deliverables from Net-SILC have become available:

- A book edited by A.B. Atkinson (Nuffield College and London School of Economics, UK) and Eric Marlier (CEPS/INSTEAD Research Institute, Luxembourg). This book was published by the EU Publications Office (OPOCE) on 13 December 2010 and can be downloaded free of charge from: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_OFFPUB/KS-31-10-555/EN/KS-31-10-555-EN.PDF.

- A series of methodological papers published in the Eurostat’s Methodologies and working papers collection, which are available (also free of charge) from: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/income_social_inclusion_living_conditions/publications/methodologies_and_working_papers.

Session 1

• Inequality, growth and mobility: The intertemporal distribution of income in European countries


• Income distribution and financial poverty


• Income poverty and material deprivation in EU countries


• Macro determinants of individual income poverty in 93 regions of Europe


• Discussant’s Comments

Session 2

• Income from own consumption in European countries as a tool to mitigate the poverty


• In-work poverty in the EU


• Towards an Inclusion Balance Accounting for Gross Change in Europeans Living Conditions


• Discussant’s Comments

Session 3

• The Distributional Impact of Imputed Rent in EU-SILC


• The EU-SILC Rotational Design and Annual Trends of Cross-Sectional Indicators


• Robustness of some EU-SILC indicators


• Sampling and non-sampling errors in EU-SILC


• Discussant’s Comments

Session 4

• Household Structure across the New Europe


• Social participation and social isolation


• Socioeconomic determinants of health


• Discussant’s Comments

Session 5

• The Distribution of Earnings in the European Union


• Educational Intensity of Employment and Polarization in Europe and the U.S.


• Employment and social inclusion in the UE


• Labour Market Returns to Education – The Potentials of Analysis with EU-SILC


• Discussant’s Comments

Session 6

• Distributional effects of direct taxes and social transfers (cash benefits)


• Economic downturn


• The Impact of Basic Public Services on the Distribution of Income in European Countries


• Discussant’s Comments