Using micro-data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) Database for 17 European countries, this article explores the recipiency of last resort means-tested income support.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/safety-net-or-sieve-the-coverage-of-minimum-income-schemes-and-the-new-social-risks/
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Using the Egyptian ERFLIS data, this article further dissects the national inequality levels by breaking them down to the regional level.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/the-geography-of-inequality-in-egypt-decomposition-analysis-and-regional-trends-over-1999-2017/
This article explores wealth disparities between migrant and native populations using data from the Luxembourg Wealth Study.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/analyzing-migrant-wealth-gaps-in-cross-national-perspective-using-lws-data/
This article explores how these socio-demographic changes have impacted income inequality in six continental European countries over a thirty-year period.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/socio-demographic-changes-and-income-inequality/
(LIS)2ER Research Associate lee@lisdatacenter.org bio Kun Lee is a quantitative social scientist and social policy researcher, focusing on how welfare state institutions shape inequalities from a comparative perspective. At LIS, Kun is involved in the (LIS)2ER project and mainly works on pension wealth inequality and old-age poverty across advanced democracies. Prior to joining LIS, Kun […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/team/lis-staff-luxembourg/kun-lee/
We invite scholars in the field of comparative economic inequality to contribute to the 2nd III/LIS Conference
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/call-for-papers-for-the-2nd-iii-lis-comparative-economic-inequality-conference-2025/
Ravi Kanbur, Professor at Cornell University, presented the 2024 LIS Summer Lecture:
Predistribution vs Redistribution
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/lecture-series/ravi-kanbur/
Research Director vankerm@lisdatacenter.org bio Philippe is an economist and a professor in inequality and social policy analysis at the University of Luxembourg’s Department of Social Sciences. He has a vast experience in micro-data analysis on poverty and inequality. Besides publishing numerous research in peer-reviewed journals, he has been developing software tools that are widely used […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/team/lis-directors/philippe-van-kerm/
Professor Philippe Van Kerm is the new LIS Research Director
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/lis-welcomes-philippe-van-kerm-as-its-new-research-director/
Bridging Inequality of Opportunity, Sufficientarianism, and Limitarianism: This article provides a framework for assessing unfair inequality
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/bridging-inequality-of-opportunity-sufficientarianism-and-limitarianism-a-framework-for-assessing-unfair-inequality/