Income Inequality: Economic Disparities and the Middle Class in Affluent Countries Edited by Janet C. Gornick and Markus Jäntti Stanford University Press This state-of-the-art volume presents comparative, empirical research on a topic that has long preoccupied scholars, politicians, and everyday citizens: economic inequality. While income and wealth inequality across all populations is the primary focus, […]
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Read abstract This state-of-the-art volume presents comparative, empirical research on a topic that has long preoccupied scholars, politicians, and everyday citizens: economic inequality. While income and wealth inequality across all populations is the primary focus, the contributions to this book pay special attention to the middle class, a segment often not addressed in inequality literature. […]
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Read abstract Understanding Research Infrastructures in the Social Sciences, produced by FORS, the Swiss Foundation for Research in Social Sciences, features a collection of chapters that demonstrate how research infrastructures – including LIS – are leading to profound changes in the social sciences. In addition to the chapter on LIS, the book includes descriptions of […]
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LIS is proud to announce a new book and an associated LIS Technical Paper. First, we mark the publication of a new book, Understanding Research Infrastructures in the Social Sciences, produced by FORS, the Swiss Foundation for Research in Social Sciences. The book features a collection of chapters that demonstrate how research infrastructures – including […]
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Holly Sutherland, Research Professor at the Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, and Director of EUROMOD, will give the 2013 LIS Summer Lecture: “Who Pays for Austerity? The Design and Distributional Effects of Fiscal Consolidation in the European Union.” The public lecture will be on July 2, at the Neumünster Abbaye, in […]
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Research Associate Email lmaldonado@gc.cuny.edu Laurie is a doctoral student in Social Welfare at UCLA.
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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 […]
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LIS is delighted to make available our first dataset from India. The 2004 India Human Development Survey (IHDS) has been added to Wave VI of the LIS Database. The IHDS was jointly organized by researchers from the University of Maryland (in the US) and the National Council of Applied Economic Research (in New Delhi). We […]
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LIS the home of Luxembourg Income Study and Luxembourg Wealth Study has gone modern! We proudly introduce our new name, new logo, and new website… The official name of our institution is now simply LIS. Our databases will retain their original names: the Luxembourg Income Study Database and the Luxembourg Wealth Study Database. If you […]
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In June 2011, LIS launched a new website and a new logo. In October 2011, we will take another exciting step forward, when we introduce a new LIS data template. We have redesigned the entire LIS Database using a unique standard template to increase both the user-friendliness of the microdata and the comparability across datasets. […]
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