Income Composition Inequality: A Novel Approach to Distributional Analysis
In this article, Marco Ranaldi discusses a novel approach to distributional analysis.
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Estimates of Wealth Inequality and Right Tail Coverage: An Illustration of Oversampling in the Survey of Consumer Finances
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.
(LIS)2ER stream at ESPAnet 2020, Leuven
Daniele Checchi, Petra Sauer, and Philippe Van Kerm host a stream on “Methodologies for comparative social policy analysis” at ESPAnet 2020 in Leuven.
Interviews from the first ERF-LIS Conference on “Inequality Trends Around the Mediterranean”
Video interviews from the first ERF-LIS Conference on “Inequality Trends Around the Mediterranean”
2019 Winter Data Release
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.
Press release – Signing of an agreement between the Luxembourg Cooperation and LIS (11.12.2019)
The Luxembourg Cooperation and LIS signed an agreement to provide unlimited access to LIS data to a large part of the United Nations agencies
2019 Autumn Data Release
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
New Data archiving system in LISSY
(applies only to datasets that went under revision after May/June 2019 and for journal review purposes only).
LIS is happy to introduce a new data archiving system.
2019 Summer Data Release
Three new datasets from Ivory Coast , two datasets from Vietnam, in addition to one dataset from Spain have been added to LIS Database
Launch of the new OECD report on the middle class “Under Pressure: The Squeezed Middle Class”
OECD launched a new flagship report heavily based on LIS data