Assistance in Research Funding - Main research areas eligible for funding

  Researchers may submit research proposals in one of the following main areas:

 The social insurance programs and income support programs for which the NII is responsible (program goals, structure and characteristics; conditions of eligibility; coverage level and eligible population; and adequacy of benefits);

Financing of national insurance programs;

Demography and social insurance;

Poverty, wage gaps, inequality in income distribution and expenditure and patterns of standard of living;

 The national insurance system and the labor market;

 The direct and indirect tax systems;

 Social aspects of the State budget (cash benefits and in-kind services) and of socio-economic policy;

 Occupational pension and other work-related welfare systems;

 The welfare system and globalization;

 At-risk populations and welfare services.