Reference
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Period
05/2023 to 11/2023
Duration:
6 Months
Funding entity:
Institute of Informatics, IP
Website
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Abstract
In the context of the Digital Transition of Social Security, a measure included in the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR), the aim is to design a public policy evaluation simulator to empower a set of institutions within the scope of the Ministry of Labour, Solidarity and Social Security (MTSSS), namely the Social Security Institute, IP (ISS), the Strategy and Planning Office (GEP) and the General Secretariat (SG), in the exercise of planning functions (including financial programming), evaluation and monitoring of policies and programs in the areas of intervention of the MTSSS (labor market, qualifications, income, poverty and inequalities, solidarity and social security), as well as in solutions for access to and provision of data/information. Considering also the current context of increasing complexity of economic and social challenges and the relevance of complementing different levels of analysis – macro, meso and micro – as well as the importance of grounding and lending credibility to decision-making processes, and of progressively improving the design and implementation of policy measures, the use of a broad and complementary set of tools that allows for the evaluation of the impacts (quantitative and qualitative) of interventions is increasingly justified.
This complementarity between different models is also justified by the fact that each of them has strengths and weaknesses and may be more geared towards specific aspects of the reality being evaluated and the moment (design, implementation, results). Despite being partial equilibrium models, they have been shown to be robust in estimating impacts in different economic or institutional contexts, as well as in assessing the costs/benefits associated with a policy reform, through the aggregation of microeconomic data.
Results
(ongoing)