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3rd (LIS)2ER Workshop on Policies to Fight Inequality – Inflation, Energy Prices and Tax Policy: Effects on Consumption and Welfare
Dec 15, 2022 | News

This article summarises the papers discussed during the 3rd (LIS)2ER Workshop on Policies to Fight Inequality
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/3rd-lis2er-workshop-on-policies-to-fight-inequality-inflation-energy-prices-and-tax-policy-effects-on-consumption-and-welfare/

Upcoming (LIS)2ER workshop “Inflation, energy prices and tax policy: Effects on consumption and welfare”
Nov 10, 2022 | News

We are happy to announce the upcoming (LIS)2ER workshop “Inflation, energy prices and tax policy: Effects on consumption and welfare”- from Thursday 1st December (mid-day) through Friday 2nd December (mid-afternoon)
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/upcoming-lis2er-workshop-inflation-energy-prices-and-tax-policy-effects-on-consumption-and-welfare/

Public issuance of GAO report on older household income, wealth, and survival
Oct 21, 2022 | News

The U.S. Government Accountability Office has publicly released a new report that heavily uses the LWS data
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/public-issuance-of-gao-report-on-older-household-income-wealth-and-survival/

Income Growth in Peru: who is on Board and who is Left Behind?
Sep 15, 2022 | News

Analysing the Peruvian data from 2004 to 2019, this article shows how income growth has been beneficial for some groups of the society, but how it left other groups behind.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/income-growth-in-peru-who-is-on-board-and-who-is-left-behind/

Explaining the child poverty outcomes of Japan, South Korea and Taiwan
Sep 15, 2022 | News

Child poverty rates are relatively low in East Asia. The authors present common characteristics contributing to their relative poverty success.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/explaining-the-child-poverty-outcomes-of-japan-south-korea-and-taiwan/

The Paradox of Redistribution in Time
Sep 15, 2022 | News

This article supplies various indicators to measure how pro-poor or pro-rich social benefits are.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/the-paradox-of-redistribution-in-time/

Unpacking Poverty in Luxembourg: Evolution of Poverty Rates by Household Type and Immigration Background- 2015-2019
Jun 15, 2022 | Ignore on home

The authors are looking in the new Luxembourgish data from 2015 to 2019, to identify population sub-groups with high poverty rates
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/unpacking-poverty-in-luxembourg-evolution-of-poverty-rates-by-household-type-and-immigration-background-2015-2019/

France is back: a new series to help understand recent and old French dynamics of inequalities (1970-2018)
Jun 15, 2022 | Ignore on home

In this article, Louis Chauvel is comparing results based on the newly available data series from the Tax Income Survey against the previously available data from the household budget survey
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/news/france-is-back-a-new-series-to-help-understand-recent-and-old-french-dynamics-of-inequalities-1970-2018/

Invitation to the 2022 LIS Summer Lecture on “The geography of income mobility”
Jun 15, 2022 | News

LIS is happy to invite you to the 2022 Summer Lecture on “The geography of income mobility” - Monday, July 4th 2022
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/2022-lis-summer-lecture-invitation/

The Atlas of Inequality Aversion: A New Dataset added to the LIS Complementary Database
Jun 15, 2022 | News

A dataset on country-specific estimates of Inequality Aversion added to the LIS Complementary Databases.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/the-atlas-of-inequality-aversion-a-new-dataset-added-to-the-lis-complementary-database/