This is the final report of the 'Pilot project on developing a common methodology on reference budgets in Europe', financed by the European Commission. Reference budgets are illustrative priced baskets of goods and services, that represent a certain living standard. In this project, the targeted...

This pilot project, funded by the European Commission, has three main objectives. The first is to establish a reference budgets network composed of key experts and representative stakeholders, at national and EU level, to share experience and expertise on reference budgets. The second objective...

This pilot project, funded by the European Commission, has three main objectives. The first is to establish a reference budgets network composed of key experts and representative stakeholders, at national and EU level, to share experience and expertise on reference budgets. The second objective...

This report is the first deliverable of a pilot project for the development of a common methodology on reference budgets in Europe. This project has two main objectives. The first is to establish a 'Reference Budgets Network' that consists of key EU experts and EU representative stakeholders, as...

Background: The small but growing literature on socio-economic inequality in morbidity among older persons suggests that social inequalities in health persist into old age. A largely separate body of literature looks at the predictors of long-term care use, in particular of institutional care....

In the microsimulation literature, it is still uncommon to test the statistical significance of results. In this paper we argue that this situation is both undesirable and unnecessary. Provided the parameters used in the microsimulation are exogenous, as is often the case in static...