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What is LIS?
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LIS is a cross-national data center located in Luxembourg which serves a global community of researchers, educators, and policy makers.
LIS acquires datasets with income, wealth, employment, and demographic data from many high- and middle-income countries, harmonises them to enable cross-national comparisons, and makes them publicly available in two databases, the Luxembourg Income Study Database (LIS) and the Luxembourg Wealth Study Database (LWS).
LIS is an internationally respected venue for cross-national research in the social sciences, serving as a host of international conferences, visiting scholars, and pre-and postdocs and a virtual host for scholarly exchange.
Our mission is to enable, facilitate, promote, and conduct cross-national comparative research on socio-economic outcomes and on the institutional factors that shape those outcomes.
What's new?
Financial Literacy and Voluntary Savings in the United Kingdom
This article explores how the propensity to save for old age is associated with financial literacy and a range of socio-demographic characteristics.
In-Work Poverty, Social Protection, and Labor Market Institutions in Europe
This article examines how social protection expenditure and labor market institutions affect the incidence of IWP across 22 European countries.
Who Thrives and Who Falls Behind? Household Income Differences in Luxembourg and its Neighbouring Countries
Using LIS data for Luxembourg, France, Germany, and Belgium, this contribution compares median incomes across household types.
2025 Autumn Data Splash
LIS is happy to announce the addition of 11 datasets to the LIS Database and 5 datasets to the LWS Database.