Carlos Gradín showcases common inequality measures (Gini & Mean Log Deviation) decomposed by different social strata.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/why-is-inequality-in-south-africa-higher-than-in-germany/
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One new dataset from Italy, IT16 (Wave X) has been added to the LIS Database. The dataset is derived from the 2016 wave of the Survey of Household Income and Wealth (SHIW), carried out by the Bank of Italy. In addition, the provision of more detailed variables for taxes and social contributions (as simulated by […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/italy-2016-added-to-the-lis-database/
Data Scientist / Programmer espasareig@lisdatacenter.org bio Josep joined LIS in March 2020 as a Data Scientist. He holds an MSc in Social Policy Analysis from Leuven University and a Political BA in Political Science from Pompeu Fabra University. Before joining LIS, Josep worked as a Senior Statistician at the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen). […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/uncategorized/josep-espasa-reig/
In this article, Marco Ranaldi discusses a novel approach to distributional analysis.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/income-composition-inequality-a-novel-approach-to-distributional-analysis/
In this article, Arthur B. Kennickell develops illustrative examples applied to the Survey of Consumer Finances to highlight some of the problems in making comparisons of wealth inequality measures when there are specific defects in the measurement of the upper tail of the distribution.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/estimates-of-wealth-inequality-and-right-tail-coverage-an-illustration-of-oversampling-in-the-survey-of-consumer-finances/
Upcoming lecture on Inequality and the SDGs by Dr. Lidia Ceriani (Georgetown University) on Tuesday, 11 March 2020, 13h00 at the European Investment Bank.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/lecture-series-inequality-and-the-sdgs/
Daniele Checchi, Petra Sauer, and Philippe Van Kerm host a stream on “Methodologies for comparative social policy analysis” at ESPAnet 2020 in Leuven.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/lis2er-stream-at-espanet-2020-leuven/
Application for the 2020 LIS Summer Workshop is now open!
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/application-for-the-lis-summer-workshop-2020-is-now-open/
2020 version of Comparative Welfare States Data Set is now added
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/comparative-welfare-states-dataset-2020/
Upcoming lecture on Inequality and Justice by Prof. Roberto Galbiati on Tuesday, 11 February 2020, 13h00 at the European Investment Bank.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/lecture-series-inequality-and-politics/