By using Theil indices, Manuel Schechtl examines income inequality between the six most prevalent family types before and after income taxation across welfare states.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/taxation-of-families-and-families-of-taxation-inequality-modification-between-family-types-across-welfare-states/
Archives
In this article, the authors contribute novel evidence for two highly debated questions in the literature, i.e. whether job polarization is a local or global phenomenon and whether it entails distributional effects.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/de-routinization-of-jobs-and-polarization-of-earnings-evidence-from-35-countries/
Upcoming virtual workshop on "The Distributional Effects of Higher Education Expansion" will take place on the 12th and 13th of November.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/lis-cross-national-data-center-in-luxembourg-and-liser-convene-a-workshop-on-the-distributional-effects-of-higher-education-expansion/
New updates to LIS Data Access Research Tool (DART)!
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/the-latest-additions-to-our-lis-and-lws-databases-can-now-also-be-explored-in-dart/
Four new video tutorials, presented by professor Louis Chauvel (University of Luxembourg), are added to the LIS Online Tutorial Series
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/new-addition-to-the-lis-online-tutorial-series-2/
Tenth call for the InGRID-2 Visiting Grants is Now Open. Deadline for application is November 29, 2020.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/tenth-call-for-the-ingrid-2-visiting-grants-is-now-open/
Twenty-three new datasets are added to the LIS Database. In addition to two new datasets are added to the LWS Database.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/2020-autumn-data-splash/
LIS is in the process of adopting a new practice of setting extreme income values for a bottom and top code for its Key Figures and DART.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/top-and-bottom-coding-at-lis/
The dimension of gender has largely remained hidden in the current debate about, and analysis of, economic inequality. Petra Sauer, Miriam Rehm, and Katharina Mader are taking stock of the discussion and provide some ways forward.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/gender-the-hidden-dimension-in-the-measurement-of-economic-inequality/
Three new video tutorials, presented by professor Philippe Van Kerm (University of Luxembourg and LISER), are added to the LIS Online Tutorial Series
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/new-addition-to-the-lis-online-tutorial-series/