{"id":2123,"date":"2014-02-18T09:55:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T09:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/improve-research.eu\/?page_id=2123"},"modified":"2014-04-04T13:09:42","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T13:09:42","slug":"workshop-on-reference-budgets","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hosting.uantwerpen.be\/improve\/?page_id=2123","title":{"rendered":"Workshop on reference budgets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Towards a method for cross-country comparable reference budgets: first results of the ImPRovE project<\/strong><\/h3>\n

8 April 2014, 10:00 am -12:00 pm, Antwerp<\/p>\n

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Chair: Prof. Bea Cantillon\u00a0<\/strong>(University of Antwerp)<\/p>\n

Abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reference budgets are priced baskets of goods and services that represent a certain living standard for clearly defined household types. If developed in a cross-country comparable setting, reference budgets could, for instance, be used to evaluate the adequacy of minimum income support, to facilitate cross-national learning and the identification of best practices of how the cost of living for people living on low incomes can effectively be reduced by making core public services more accessible; and to contextualise the at-risk-of-poverty threshold. As part of the ImPRovE project, we are developing for the first time cross-country comparable reference budgets that correspond to a minimum acceptable living standard in Belgium, Greece, Hungary, Finland, Spain and Italy. The main purpose of the ImPRovE exercise is to evaluate the feasibility of developing reference budgets in several countries on the basis of the same theoretical and methodological framework. During the workshop we will \u00a0explain the particularities of the ImPRovE method \u00a0and compare it with other approaches to constructing reference budgets employed in the EU. Subsequently, we will present the first results of our endeavours and will reflect upon how the method could be improved to maximise cross-national comparability.<\/p>\n

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Presentations:<\/strong><\/p>\n