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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?
Isogini as a Set of Indicators to Compare Trends a nd Shapes of Income Inequality: The Fading Swedish Middle-Class Society in a World of Diverse Dynamics
Louis Chauvel proposes Isoginis, a Gini-comparable family of inequality indices.
Uneven Effects of Childcare Expansion?
Anna Karmann examines whether increased childcare coverage leads to higher labour market participation of mothers.
Analyzing the Impact of Social Protection Programs in a Cross-national Perspective
This cross-national study by Jörg Neugschwender contributes to the discourse on poverty alleviation through social protection programmes.
Monetary Policy, Housing and Inequality
This note by Philipp Poyntner emphasizes the channels through which monetary policy influences housing markets and inequality and their interplay.