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Saatja: Ewelina Wolosik <[email protected]> Saadetud: 04.05.2022 16:13 Adressaat: Ivar Sikk <[email protected]> Koopia: Amelia Zajączkowska <[email protected]>; SM Info <[email protected]> Teema: Request for information | DG EMPL study on the assessment of micro and macro-economic returns of social protection expenditure Dear Mr. Ivar Sikuga, I am contacting you on behalf of Ecorys. European Commission Directorate- General for Employment, Social Affairs, and Inclusion contracted Ecorys to conduct a study assessment of micro and macro-economic returns of social protection expenditure. Please find the endorsement letter attached. I am contacting the Social Welfare Department in the Ministry of Social Affairs with a request to support our study aiming to identify methodologies and practices on returns to social protection expenditure in all EU 27 Member States. Examples of recognised practices would support the development of methodologies assessing macro-and microeconomic returns to social protection expenditure. We hope that the findings of this study will further support policymakers and provide tools that would assist them in making better-informed decisions. Considering the above, I would like to ask you to kindly answer the questions below and/ or share any additional materials (publications, reports, descriptions, links) you may have on the topics above (even in your native language). 1. Do you have any approach to assess returns to social protection expenditure in your country? a. Is it applied regularly or ad-hoc? b. Does it include all social protection expenditures? c. What kind of social protection expenditures does your country choose if not all expenditures are involved? 2. If there is no defined approach, are you aware of any practices/ studies measuring the return to society in your country? What were the components of social protection expenditure considered in these practices/studies? (related to sickness/ healthcare, disability, old age, survivors, family, unemployment, employment, housing, social exclusion, education or others)? 3. Are you aware of any practices/ studies that focus on social protection impact on: economic outputs, household expenditure, productivity, income, formal employment, tax revenue, poverty, inequality, or others? 4. Within examples that you are aware of, what methods were used to estimate your country's returns to social protection expenditure? (for example, cost-benefit analysis, cross-country growth regressions, computable generalised equilibrium models, Social Accounting Matrices, micro-macro models, ASIS or others) 5. Based on the responses above, could you please explain: a. What institutions are involved in the process of measuring social protection expenditure? What datasets does your country use to estimate returns? b. What indicators were used to capture social investment returns, such as GDP returns and individual income increases/decreases or others? Do chosen indicators focus on macro return or micro returns to social protection expenditure? We would like to kindly request to answer these questions on behalf of your institution. Please provide these, even if these are in your national languages, by 16.05.2022. Additionally, please let us know if you are aware of any other institutions in your country or specialists in your organisation that should be contacted as experts on the topic. Once we receive your answers, we will carefully analyse them and ask for any clarifications from your side, if needed. I am looking forward to your reply; please confirm that you received my message. In case of any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at: or &#43;48 604 093 312. 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EUROPEAN COMMISSION DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR EMPLOYMENT, SOCIAL AFFAIRS AND INCLUSION Social Rights and Inclusion Social Policies, Child Guarantee, SPC Brussels EMPL.D.1/JS/to/Ares(2022)3381764 Ecorys [email protected] Subject: study on the assessment of micro and macro-economic returns of social protection expenditure Dear Sir or Madam, This letter confirms that European Commission Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs, and Inclusion contracted Ecorys to conduct a study on the assessment of micro and macro-economic returns of social protection expenditure. The study aims to map existing, both in the EU and beyond, methodologies and practices in that respect and develop quantitative methodologies that can contribute to plugging the gap in estimating macro and microeconomic returns to social protection expenditure. In this context, I would like to kindly ask you to provide assistance to Ecorys by sharing methodologies, assessment frameworks and practices applied in your country. Should you need any further information regarding this study, please do not hesitate to contact the Project Manager, Agnieszka Makulec ([email protected]). For more information about the aim of the study, please contact Monika Sherwood ([email protected]). Thank you in advance for your support. Yours faithfully, Qualified electronic signature by: JIRI SVARC Date: 2022-04-21 15:44:41 +02:00 Jiri Svarc Head of Unit Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111