2025 LIS Summer Introductory Workshop 30 June – 04 July 2025

Workshop Format

For more than 30 years, LIS has organized the LIS Introductory Summer Workshop, held in Luxembourg, in order to ease the access to data on income and wealth.

Following the last five editions, LIS, the University of Luxembourg and LISER will jointly organize and teach the LIS Summer Workshop on “Comparative Inequality Measurement using the LIS & LWS Databases”. This workshop, taught in English, is a one-week intensive course designed to introduce researchers in the social sciences to comparative research on income and wealth distribution, employment and social policy, using the harmonised Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) and the Luxembourg Wealth Study (LWS) Databases.

Attendees will be trained to use both databases independently and will have the opportunity to:

  • Acquire advanced knowledge about methods used in inequality research
  • Gain skills related to the study of comparative inequality
  • Learn in detail about the LIS and LWS data and develop ties with LIS’ large international network

Programme

The Workshop will start at 9:00 on Monday 30/06/2025 and will end on the 4th of July around 18:00. A closing banquet will take place on Thursday 03/07/2025 in Luxembourg City. Applicants are kindly requested to plan their travels accordingly.

The programme of the workshop will be available soon, it will closely follow the structure of the 2023 and 2024 workshop, with the contribution of Professor Philippe Van Kerm (The University of Luxembourg), Professor Louis Chauvel (The University of Luxembourg), and Kun Lee (LIS-LISER). For reference, the 2023 programme (coinciding with the LIS 40th anniversary) is available here, and the 2024 programme is available here.

We are happy to announce that Pedro Salas-Rojo (Research Officer, International Inequalities Institute,
The London School of Economics and Political Science) will be presenting “Machine Learning with LIS”. The lecture will be accompained with hands-on application on lab session(s).

  Important:

  • For European PhD Students in social sciences and economics, 2 ECTS will be granted, participants are evaluated on active attendance to the workshop.
  • The lab sessions will be taught mainly using Stata package, in addition to few lab sessions in R. Each attendee is requested to bring his/her laptop. Having Stata installed on your laptop is recommended – but not required.

Costs

Workshop tuition fees: 450€. Tuition fees cover all teaching materials, coffee breaks, and social event(s) during the workshop week.

Application

To apply, kindly fill the online application form available: here.

 Application deadline : April 11, 2025
 Acceptance announcement : by April 25, 2025
 Workshop fee payment : May 20, 2025

Practicalities

Location

The Workshop will be held at the University of Luxembourg, Belval Campus, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg.

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Accommodation options provided by LIS with negotiated prices for our workshop participants
  • Hotel Acacia: 104.50€ : single standard with breakfast + 2€ city taxes per day.
    (The hotel is located one train station away from the workshop venue (4-minutes train ride) )
  • Hotel de la Poste: 105€ per night with breakfast + 2€ city taxes per day.
    (The hotel is located one train station away from the workshop venue (4-minutes train ride) )
  • Hotel ibis Esch Belval : 110€ per night with breakfast.
    (The hotel is located 5-minutes walking distance from the workshop venue)
  • Hotel Topaz: 85€ per night with breakfast and city taxes.
    (The hotel is located one train station away from the workshop venue (4-minutes train ride) ) .

Special code for reservation for the hotels will be provided following acceptance, your choice of the accommodation, and the hotel availability.

Other accommodation options
  • Many hotels and youth hostels are located throughout Luxembourg, that are fairly accessible using public transportation.
Public Transportation

All public transportation in Luxembourg (including trains, trams and buses) are free of charge.

Train and bus information

Centrale de Mobilité
Call center : +352/2465-2465

Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Luxembourgeois
Call center : +352/2489-2489

Selection

All the applications will be evaluated by an internal selection committee. The evaluation will be based on the applicant’s academic achievement, motivation to attend the workshop, the expected use of the LIS data, Stata level, and potential publications.
Selected applicants announcement: by April 25, 2025.

Inquiries

If you have any inquiries, please write to workshop@lisdatacenter.org .