Microdata Expert (1-year contract) REF LIS-STATEC

Preferred starting date : 15 July 2023

Contract

• 1-year fixed-term contract (replacement maternity / parental leave)
• Part-time (24h a week)

Your mission

The position involves supporting the National Statistical Office of Luxembourg (STATEC) in the production of the national EU-SILC data:

• Preparation of the survey questionnaire
• Data checking and validation
• Imputation of missing income components
• Gross-net tax calculations
• Computation of sampling weights
• Construction of the final datasets to be transmitted to Eurostat
• Writing of a quality report and documentation of the whole process

This position also involves contributing to methodological work using microdata from other STATEC surveys:

• Estimation of mode effect
• Matching income, consumption and wealth

Your profile

• The successful candidate will have an MA in statistics, sociology, economics, econometrics, demography, or another social science.
• Familiarity with the EU-SILC data and the commonly agreed EU indicators is a strong asset.
• Extensive experience working with microdata using SAS, STATA or R statistical software, so as attention to detail.
• Command of spoken English is required. Luxembourgish and French are an asset.

Location:The work is to be performed at the STATEC premises in Luxembourg.

Interested?

Applicants should submit a cover letter and a Curriculum Vitae to Ms. Lucie Scapoli, search@lisdatacenter.org.

Please make sure to specify the REF of the job position in the subject of your email.

Applications will be considered until the position is filled.

Sir Richard Blundell, Ricardo Professor of Political Economy at the University College London and Institute for Fiscal Studies, presented the LIS 40^th Anniversary Lecture: Connecting Income and Consumption Measurements of Inequality and Poverty: New Ideas and New Empirics.

Professor Blundell was the founding Director of the ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP) at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) IFS where he was Research Director 1986 – 2016 and is currently Co-Director and Research Fellow at IFS CPP. He holds Honorary Doctorates from the University of St.Gallen; Norwegian School of Economics NHH; University of Mannheim; Universita della Svizzera; University of Bristol; University of Venice Ca’Foscari; and Athens School of Economics, AUEB, Athens. He has held visiting professor positions at UBC, MIT, Chicago, Northwestern, TSE and Berkeley. He was Knighted in the 2014 New Years Honours list for services to Economics and Social Science; he was awarded the CBE in 2006.

LIS is delighted to announce its upcoming conference in celebration of the 40th anniversary of its creation.
The “40 Years of The Luxembourg Income Study Conference” will take place on Friday, 26 May 2023 at Salle Paul Feidert, Campus Kirchberg from 9:00 to 18:00.

Please find the Conference Program here.

Attendance is for free but registration is mandatory.
Kindly register from this link [Deadline: Monday 22nd May (10:00 am Luxembourg Time) ].

Please note that this is an in-person event and virtual attendance is not possible.

For more information, please visit this page here.

The University of Luxembourg, LIS, and LISER invite you for a hybrid session of the monthly seminar on social inequality and public policies, which will be held ONLINE and IN-PERSON due to COVID-19.

In person room: MSH salle LISER 1st floor (Maison des Sciences Humaines).

Wednesday 10 May at 15h30 (UTC+01:00) Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna

The following presentation is scheduled:

Speaker: Alexandra Killewald (Department of Sociology, Harvard University )

Title: For Richer: Marriage and Wealth

Abstract:
Marriage is widely considered to benefit individuals’ economic well-being, including their net worth. Yet establishing the role of marriage in wealth generation is complicated by the dynamic and reciprocal nature of marriage and wealth: marriage is both the result of prior wealth and a potential determinant of future wealth. In this paper, we use data from the NLSY79 and marginal structural models that account for these dynamic selection processes to estimate the effect marital histories on midlife wealth for American men and women.

Participation
In person room: MSH salle LISER 1st floor (Maison des Sciences Humaines).

Please join us on Webex meetings by following the link below
https://unilu.webex.com/unilu/j.php?MTID=m8eef4e00da7ae216b630dc5074bdcaa4

Meeting number: 2734 967 5011

Password: 7PDm7gG3GwN

The University of Luxembourg, LIS, and LISER invite you for a hybrid session of the monthly seminar on social inequality and public policies, which will be held ONLINE and IN-PERSON due to COVID-19.

In person room: MSH salle LISER 1st floor (Maison des Sciences Humaines).

Wednesday 3 May at 15h30 (UTC+01:00) Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna

The following presentation is scheduled:

Speaker: Fabian T. Pfeffer

Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan

Director, Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics, University of Michigan

Title: The Demography of Rising Wealth Inequality

Abstract:
The growth of inequality in household wealth over recent decades is well documented. We determine the independent contribution of several demographic trends to rising U.S. wealth inequality over the last three decades. Using data from the Survey of Consumer Finances from 1989 through 2019 and novel decomposition techniques, we show that rapid growth in wealth inequality and increasing wealth concentration at the top coincided with important changes in the demographic composition of the country but that the two are not directly related. However, the shifts in the wealth distribution among demographic groups, in particular the move of households with less education and non-elderly households away from the middle of the distribution, explain much of the observed overall growth in inequality. Part, but not all, of these demographic contributions to rising wealth inequality operate through their contributions to rising income inequality.

Participation
In person room: MSH salle LISER 1st floor (Maison des Sciences Humaines).

Please join us on Webex meetings by following the link below

Meeting link: https://unilu.webex.com/unilu/j.php?MTID=m205d4eb9755540ec84132ec829eafe31

Meeting number: 2732 516 6118

Password: X3TtkM5HTM3

This year’s winners of the LIS Aldi Award are Regina S. Baker and Heather A. O’Connell for the LIS Working Paper No. 836 entitled “Structural Racism, Family Structure, and Black-White Inequality in Poverty: The Differential Impact of the Legacy of Slavery among Single Mother & Married Parent Households”. Baker is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, O’Connell is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Louisiana State University. They will present the winning paper at the upcoming LIS 40th Anniversary Conference in May.

The paper was scientifically evaluated by 6 reviewers and it was voted as the best from the qualified LIS and LWS Working papers.

Every year, the award is granted to the writer under age 40, whose LIS or LWS Working Paper from the previous year best demonstrates the qualities of good scholarship that Aldi exhibited.

Gdansk University of Technology & Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) invites proposals for the conference Income and wealth inequality: drivers and consequences. The conference will take place on September 27-29, 2023 at the Faculty of Management and Economics, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland.

More information about the conference, and submission guidelines available here.

LIS data was heavily used for some analysis underlying the latest World Social Report 2023 from the UN Department of Social Affairs (UNDESA). The report, Leaving No One Behind In An Ageing World focuses on the economic and social implications of the ageing of the human population. It builds on the Plan of Action’s framework for national policies to create equitable, inclusive societies for people of all ages, providing recommendations to put the rights and well-being of older persons at the centre, across the life course. In particular Chapter 4, which is fully based on LIS and LWS data, explores how ageing impacts poverty and inequality dynamics in both developed and developing countries. It gives a particular emphasis to the role of social protection, education and health care systems as well as the labour, in ensuring an adequate level of economic security in old-age. The analysis is further enriched by some empirical evidence on asset ownership across the life course.

Gdansk University of Technology & Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) invites proposals for the conference Income and wealth inequality: drivers and consequences. The conference will take place on September 27-29, 2023 at the Faculty of Management and Economics, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland.

Scholars are invited to present the latest research developments on income and wealth inequalities from a theoretical, historical, and comparative perspective, elaborate on the role of public policy and technological progress in the evolution of inequalities, and understand the economic and social consequences of increasing economic inequalities. Since economic inequality is a complex problem, we invite submissions from scholars representing various social science disciplines that deal with the following research topics: 1. inequality trends; 2. intergenerational inequalities; 3. inequalities within the household; 4. income and wealth inequality measurements; 5. gender inequality and discrimination in the labor market; 6. consequences of household debt; 7. determinants and consequences of wealth accumulation; 8. understanding and measuring poverty with an emphasis on poverty reduction and economic development strategies; 9. preferences for redistribution: measurements, factors, and effects; 10. education, labor markets, and inequalities; 11. comparative assessments of social and fiscal policies on inequality and poverty; 12. impact of new technologies and Artificial Intelligence on social inequalities; 13. environmental protection and economic inequalities; 14. selected sustainable development goals and social inequalities; 15. Impact of crises on inequality and poverty, and policy responses.

More information about the conference, and submission guidelines available here.