We are happy to announce the upcoming (LIS)2ER workshop "Fighting poverty: measurement and policy challenges"- December 11-13 2024.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/5th-lis2er-workshop-on-policies-to-fight-inequality-fighting-poverty-measurement-and-policy-challenges-11-13-december-2024/
Archives
Scheduled LISSY System Maintenance
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/scheduled-lissy-system-maintenance-october-21-2024-1700-1900-cet-time/
LIS congratulates Professors Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson on this year’s Nobel Prize in Economics.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/lis-congratulates-daron-acemoglu-on-nobel-prize-for-research-on-institutions-and-economic-development/
LIS has temporarily paused the addition of new data during this quarter in preparation of an upcoming update to its LIS and LWS databases.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/2024-autumn-data-splash/
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/
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/
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/