Two new datasets, SE02 (Wave V) and SE05 (Wave VI) have been added to the LWS Database. The datasets are based on the 2002 and 2005 of the Household Finance Survey (HEK) carried out by Statistics Sweden.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/sweden-new-datasets-added-to-the-lws-database/
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LIS provides a background paper to UN Women’s Research & Data Section to feed into Progress of the World’s Women Report 2018, and Gender Equality in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 2018.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/lis-commissioned-for-un-women-flagship-reports/
Miles Corak, professor of economics, appointed to the faculty of the Graduate Center of CUNY, effective January 2018.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/inequality-expert-miles-corak-joins-the-stone-center/
The Graduate Center Wealth Project, a research initiative based in the Stone Center, was officially launched this autumn.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/new-wealth-research-project-launched/
LIS welcomed, through the InGRID-2 project, Ana Suárez Álvarez PhD student at the University of Oviedo.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/visiting-scholars-at-lis/
Publication of IMF Fiscal Monitor, focusing on inequality issues, makes use of the LIS Database for its analyses
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/the-october-2017-imf-fiscal-monitor-has-been-published/
Three New datasets from Canada, Lithuania and Switzerland and Six Datasets from Austria and Italy have been added to respectively the LIS and the LWS Database
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/fall-data-release/
One new dataset from Canada, CA13 (Wave IX) has been added to the LIS Database. The dataset is based on the second wave (2013) of the new Canadian Income Survey (CIS) carried out by Statistics Canada. In addition to releasing this Wave IX dataset, the previous LIS datasets based on the predecessor of the CIS […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/canada-new-dataset-from-a-new-survey-added-to-the-lis-database/
LIS is delighted to announce that it has acquired income microdata from Lithuania. As of today, two new datasets, LT10 (Wave VIII) and LT13 (Wave IX) have been added to the LIS Database. The datasets are based respectively on the 2011 and 2014 waves of the Lithuanian Survey of Income and Living Conditions (SILC) carried […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/lithuania-new-country-in-lis/