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What is LIS?
LIS brochure (pdf 976kb)
LIS is a cross-national data center located in Luxembourg which serves a global community of researchers, educators, and policy makers.
LIS acquires datasets with income, wealth, employment, and demographic data from many high- and middle-income countries, harmonises them to enable cross-national comparisons, and makes them publicly available in two databases, the Luxembourg Income Study Database (LIS) and the Luxembourg Wealth Study Database (LWS).
LIS is an internationally respected venue for cross-national research in the social sciences, serving as a host of international conferences, visiting scholars, and pre-and postdocs and a virtual host for scholarly exchange.
Our mission is to enable, facilitate, promote, and conduct cross-national comparative research on socio-economic outcomes and on the institutional factors that shape those outcomes.
What's new?
Labor Market Returns under Educational Expansion in the Americas: Is the Value of Educational Credentials Changing?
This study analyses how educational expansion affects labour market returns in liberal welfare regimes across the Americas.
Highlights from the 2nd III-LIS Comparative Economic Inequality Conference
The 2nd III-LIS Conference featured 79 papers, keynotes, and a discussion on Branko Milanovic’s book
“Visions of Inequality” Branko Milanovic in conversation with Francisco Ferreira and Janet Gornick
Francisco Ferreira and Janet Gornick discussed Visions of Inequality with Branko Milanovic at III-LIS 2025.
2025 Spring Data Splash
LIS is happy to announce the addition of 28 datasets to the LIS Database and 7 datasets to the LWS Database.