Tackling Inequalities in Time of Austerity (TITA)
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Analyses multiple forms of inequality and ensures feasible policy recommendations for reducing inequalities in society for decades to come.
Objectives
Aim of the consortium is to develop and evaluate ex-ante and ex-post policies for decreasing inequalities in society through income distribution, welfare service, benefit schemes, education, family policies, fertility, immigration, health and wellbeing. Besides “only” highlighting potential targets of policy measures, it will both produce and evaluate feasible policy recommendations for these problems.
Implementation
TITA exhausts unique longitudinal and time-series data and top-of-the-art statistical methods to fully explore mechanisms of inequality. In order to evaluate past and proposed policy reforms, the project applies the existing microsimulation models as well as builds new ones to cover policy fields that have previously been ignored.
Partners
- Department of Social Research, University of Turku, UTU
- Consumer Society Research Centre, University of Helsinki, CSRS
- Department of Social Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, UEF
- Department of Sociology, Stockholm University, DS
- Diaconia University of Applied Sciences, DIAK
- National Institute for Health and Welfare, THL
- Social Insurance Institution of Finland, KELA
- Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, SOFI
- Swedish School of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, SKHH
Funding
Strategic Research Council at the Academy of Finland
Contact information
Pasi Moisio
Research Professor, Head of Unit
Tel.: +358 29 524 7228
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @pasi_moisio
