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Upcoming Webinar – LIS Summer Lecture 2021

LIS is happy to announce its upcoming Virtual Summer 2021 Lecture given by Professor Peter Lanjouw (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) on Tuesday, July 6th, 2021 [Luxembourg Local Time: 17:30-18:30]

June 15, 2021 | News and Events | read more »

Higher Education Expansion and Inequality in Labour Incomes: The Importance of a Gendered Perspective

In a study conducted within the framework of the (LIS)2ER project Petra Sauer and Philippe Van Kerm examined LIS data for 27 countries between 1995 and 2015

June 15, 2021 | News and Events | read more »

A Brief Look at Consumption Expenditure Patterns of (Low-Income) Households in Europe

In this note, Lorena Zardo Trindade provides an investigation on how the household consumption expenditure shares change across EU countries

June 15, 2021 | News and Events | read more »

LIS Virtual Summer Workshop 2021 – Applications are Now Open!

Applications for LIS Virtual Summer Workshop 2021 are Now Open!

May 5, 2021 | News and Events | read more »

Postdoctoral and PhD positions in Political Science and Related Social Science Fields: Project on the Politics of Inequality & Housing

Interested in the ways in which housing policy and housing markets drive inequalities across key societal groups within and across countries? The PROPEL project is recruiting Postdoctoral and PhD positions

April 16, 2021 | News and Events | read more »

Announcement – LIS New Director Appointed!

LIS welcomes Professor Peter Lanjouw as the new LIS Director!

March 16, 2021 | News and Events | read more »

Inequality Reduction in four Advanced Countries from 2000 to the late 2010s

In this article, Munzi and Neugschwender take a closer look at changes in the income distribution from 2000 to the late 2010s in Canada, Germany, the UK, and the US.

March 16, 2021 | News and Events | read more »

Financial Information and Investment Decisions: Some Stylized Facts from the United States using the Luxembourg Wealth Study Database

This brief writing aims to examine the sources of information utilized by households for investing decisions.

March 16, 2021 | News and Events | read more »

Release of a New Book; Inequality in the developing world, edited by Gradín, Leibbrandt, and Tarp

LIS is delighted to announce the publication of the book “Inequality in the Developing World” by Oxford University Press.

March 16, 2021 | News and Events | read more »

Video recordings for the first (LIS)2ER workshop: “The Distributional Effects of Higher-Education Expansion” are now available!

Video recordings for the first (LIS)2ER workshop “The Distributional Effects of Higher-Education Expansion” are now available!

February 24, 2021 | News and Events | read more »