One more data point for United Kingdom, namely CA16 (Wave X) have been added to the LWS Database. The datasets is based on the 2016 wave of the Survey of Financial Securities (SFS) carried out by Statistics Canada. This brings the total number of Canadian datasets in LWS to four (CA99, CA05, CA12 and CA16).
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/canada-ca16-added-to-lws/
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As a result of a research agreement signed between LIS and AFD, data from Côte d’Ivoire and Vietnam have been acquired by LIS
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/collaboration-with-the-afd-data-from-ivory-coast-and-vietnam/
ERF and LIS have joined forces in order to exploit the richness of the microdata offered by both institutions
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/erf-lis-conference-inequality-trends-around-the-mediterranean/
Opening session of the scientific day of the 13th International Conference of the AFD dedicated to presentations of LIS scholars
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/13th-international-conference-of-the-afd-inequality-and-social-cohesion/
The James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation awarded a gift of $1.2 million to the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/gcs-stone-center-launches-new-postdoctoral-scholars-program-on-socio-economic-inequality/
Four new datasets from Australia, Georgia and Serbia have been added to the LIS database as well as two Australian datasets to LWS
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/2018-fall-data-release/
LIS is delighted to announce that two more data points have been added to both the LIS and LWS Databases, namely, AU14 (Wave IX) and AU04 (Wave VI). The AU04 dataset is based on the 2003-04 waves of the Survey of Income and Housing (SIH) and Household Expenditure Survey (HES, wave 2003-04) carried out by […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/australia-au14-and-au04-added-to-lis-and-lws/
One new dataset from Serbia, RS16 (Wave X) has been added to the LIS Database. The dataset is based on the 2016 wave of the Household Budget Survey carried out by Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia. In addition to releasing this Wave X dataset, the entirety of the Serbian series (RS06, RS10 and […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/serbia-rs16-added-to-lis/
One new dataset from Georgia, GE16 (Wave X) has been added to the LIS Database. The dataset is based on the 2016 wave of the Integrated Household Survey (IHS) carried out by National Statistics Office of Georgia.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/georgia-ge16-added-to-lis/
The 2019 edition of the annual Research on Economic Inequality series has special interest in the question “Why inequality differs so much across countries?”
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/call-for-papers-why-inequality-differs-so-much-across-countries/