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/
Archives
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/
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/
Video interviews from the first ERF-LIS Conference on "Inequality Trends Around the Mediterranean"
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/interviews-from-the-first-erf-lis-conference-on-inequality-trends-around-the-mediterranean/
Eight datasets are added to the LIS Database from Chile, Denmark, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Slovenia. Two new countries have been added to the LWS Database, Japan, and Luxembourg, so as one data point from Germany.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/2019-winter-data-release/
The Luxembourg Cooperation and LIS signed an agreement to provide unlimited access to LIS data to a large part of the United Nations agencies
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/press-release-signing-of-an-agreement-between-the-luxembourg-cooperation-and-lis-11-12-2019/
Six new datasets from Austria, Brazil, Colombia, Finland, and Japan have been added to the LIS Database, in addition to five datasets from Spain have been added to LWS Database
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/2019-autumn-data-release/
LIS is happy to introduce a new data archiving system.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/new-data-archiving-system-in-lissy-applies-only-to-datasets-that-went-under-revision-after-may-june-2019-and-for-journal-review-purposes-only/
Three new datasets from Ivory Coast , two datasets from Vietnam, in addition to one dataset from Spain have been added to LIS Database
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/2019-summer-data-release/
OECD launched a new flagship report heavily based on LIS data
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/launch-of-the-new-oecd-report-on-the-middle-class-under-pressure-the-squeezed-middle-class/