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Why Is Old-Age Poverty on the Rise in Lithuania? A First Look at the Annual LIS Data Series for 2009-2017
Using the soon to be released annual LIS data series from Lithuania for 2009-2017, Gintare takes a closer look at the poverty trends among the elderly and identifies some of the factors behind these trends.
June 10, 2020 | News and Events | read more »
Still the Lands of Equality? On the Heterogeneity of Individual Factor Income Shares in the Nordics
Following Ranaldi’s ICI index, Roberto Iacono and Elisa Palagi study how the heterogeneity in the factor income shares of individuals compares in the Nordic countries.
June 3, 2020 | News and Events | read more »
The Role of Inheritance on Wealth Inequality: A Machine Learning Approach
Pedro Salas Rojo and Juan Gabriel Rodríguez use Machine Learning techniques to explore the role of any inheritances received in shaping wealth distribution in five OECD countries.
June 3, 2020 | News and Events | read more »
LISSY Upgrade – New Graphing Functionality!
Launch of a new version of LISSY which includes a fully web-based interface and graphing functionalities.
May 31, 2020 | News and Events | read more »
Khan Academy includes LIS Data in their tutorials (in partnership with the New York Times)
LIS data included in Khan Academy tutorial!
April 22, 2020 | News and Events | read more »
Ninth call for the InGRID-2 Visiting Grants is Now Open!
Ninth call for the InGRID-2 Visiting Grants is Now Open. Deadline for application is May 1, 2020.
April 17, 2020 | News and Events | read more »
The 2020 LIS Summer Workshop is cancelled!
Due to the current outbreak of Coronavirus (COVID-19), the 2020 LIS Summer Workshop has been cancelled.
April 2, 2020 | News | read more »
Why is inequality in South Africa higher than in Germany?
Carlos Gradín showcases common inequality measures (Gini & Mean Log Deviation) decomposed by different social strata.
March 10, 2020 | News and Events | read more »
Income Composition Inequality: A Novel Approach to Distributional Analysis
In this article, Marco Ranaldi discusses a novel approach to distributional analysis.
February 26, 2020 | News and Events | read more »
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.
February 25, 2020 | News and Events | read more »