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What is LIS?
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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?
LIS is Hiring a Microdata Expert!
LIS seeks applications for a Microdata Expert to support the National Statistical Office of Luxembourg (STATEC)
Call for papers for the 3rd III/LIS Comparative Economic Inequality Conference 2027
We invite scholars in the field of comparative economic inequality to contribute to the 3rd III/LIS Conference
A Slow Convergence? Intra-couple Division of Labour and Related Perceptions in South Korea, 2004–2024
This article examines the household division of paid and unpaid work among Korean couples aged 25–49.
Two Decades of Income Evolution in Belgium: Regional Disparities and the Impact of Covid-19
This article analyses the evolution of household disposable income across Belgium’s three regions over the period 2004–2024.
The Anatomy of Consumption Inequality: What Drives Differences Across Countries?
This article provides a Lerman-Yitzhaki decomposition to examine which consumption categories drive inequality most.
2026 Summer Data Splash
LIS is happy to announce the addition of 38 datasets to the LIS Database and 6 dataset to the LWS Database.