Read abstract Inequality has emerged as a key development challenge. It holds implications for economic growth and redistribution and translates into power asymmetries that can endanger human rights, create conflict, and embed social exclusion and chronic poverty. For these reasons, it underpins intense public and academic debates and has become a dominant policy concern within […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/books/inequality-in-the-developing-world/
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Video recordings for the first (LIS)2ER workshop "The Distributional Effects of Higher-Education Expansion” are now available!
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/video-recordings-for-the-first-lis2er-workshop-the-distributional-effects-of-higher-education-expansion-are-now-available/
In this article, the author discusses how is globalization shaping economic redistribution in Central and Eastern Europe thirty years after the start of the post-communist transition.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/globalization-and-economic-redistribution-in-central-and-eastern-europe-thirty-years-after-the-transition/
Twenty-six new datasets are added to the LIS Database. In addition to five new datasets are added to the LWS Database.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/2020-winter-data-splash/
This article summarizes the different papers presented during the virtual workshop on “The Distributional Effects of Higher Education Expansion”.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/lis2er-workshop-the-distributional-effects-of-higher-education-expansion/
LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg, seeks applications for a Microdata Expert to join the LIS data team
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/uncategorized/lis-is-hiring-6/
By using Theil indices, Manuel Schechtl examines income inequality between the six most prevalent family types before and after income taxation across welfare states.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/taxation-of-families-and-families-of-taxation-inequality-modification-between-family-types-across-welfare-states/
In this article, the authors contribute novel evidence for two highly debated questions in the literature, i.e. whether job polarization is a local or global phenomenon and whether it entails distributional effects.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/de-routinization-of-jobs-and-polarization-of-earnings-evidence-from-35-countries/
LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg, seeks applications for a Microdata Expert to support the National Statistical Office of Luxembourg (STATEC)
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/uncategorized/lis-is-hiring-a-microdata-expert/
Upcoming virtual workshop on "The Distributional Effects of Higher Education Expansion" will take place on the 12th and 13th of November.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/lis-cross-national-data-center-in-luxembourg-and-liser-convene-a-workshop-on-the-distributional-effects-of-higher-education-expansion/