LIS Board President Sir Tony Atkinson will be in public conversation with Professor Paul Krugman on the relationship between inequality and growth. The conversation will be moderated by Chrystia Freeland, journalist at Thomson Reuters. The event will take place at the home of LIS’ satellite office, The Graduate Center of CUNY in New York City. The event, to take place on Monday May 20th, at 6:30 PM eastern time in New York, is sold out but will be live streamed. http://videostreaming.gc.cuny.edu/videos/livestreams/page1/
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The next LIS Introductory Summer Workshop will be held 30 June – 7 July 2013, at the University of Luxembourg campus. The winners of the 2013 Aldi Hagenaars Award and the winner of the 2013 World Bank/LIS Gender Research Award will be invited to present their papers. Our annual Summer Lecture will also be taking [...]
LIS has revised the following datasets in the LIS Database: Greece 2007 and Greece 2010. For details, please check the List of Dataset Revisions.
LIS proudly announces the availability of the first Japanese dataset in the Luxembourg Income Study Database. Based on the Japan Household Panel Survey (JHPS), from Keio University Joint Research Center for Panel Studies, the 2008 dataset is included in Wave VII of LIS.
Three new datasets from the Slovak Republic have been added to the LIS Database, SK 2004 (Wave VI), SK 2007 (Wave VII) and SK 2010 (Wave VIII). The datasets are based on the Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU SILC), from the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic.
LIS has added a new dataset from Germany to the LIS Database: Germany 2010 (Wave VIII). The dataset is based on the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), from the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW). In addition, German datasets for 1984, 1989, 1994, 2000, 2004 and especially 2007 have been revised. These datasets, all based on [...]
LIS has added a second dataset from South Africa to the LIS Database: South Africa 2010 (Wave VIII). This dataset is based on the National Income Dynamics Study (NIDS), and is from the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU) of the University of Cape Town.