2018 Fall data Release
Four new datasets from Australia, Georgia and Serbia have been added to the LIS database as well as two Australian datasets to LWS
Recent News
Call for papers – “Why inequality differs so much across countries?”
The 2019 edition of the annual Research on Economic Inequality series has special interest in the question “Why inequality differs so much across countries?”
ECSR Thematic Workshop “Wealth Inequality and Mobility”
Two-day workshop organized by the Institute for Research on Socio-Economic Inequality (IRSEI) at the University of Luxembourg (in partnership with LIS/LWS)
Book on Wealth and Homeownership
In almost every country, wealth is predominantly constituted by housing equity, but what are the possible risks and how does wealth accumulation vary across countries?
JID special issue from the 2017 LIS/LWS user conference
Special Issue Comparative wealth and income research edited by Daniele Checchi and Janet Gornick is now available online
New complementary database: Routine Task Intensity and Offshorability for the LIS
This database allows LIS users to retrieve very detailed and standardized occupation categories, following the international two-digit coding of the ISCO-88 standard
2018 Summer Data Release
Twenty three new datasets from Chile, Germany, Hungary, Israel, and Poland have been added to the LIS database
Workshop on “Harmonization of Household Surveys, Fiscal Data and National Accounts” at the Paris School of Economics
The workshop explored methods aimed at adjusting the top of income and wealth distributions