Using the soon to be released annual LIS data series from Lithuania for 2009-2017, Gintare takes a closer look at the poverty trends among the elderly and identifies some of the factors behind these trends.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/why-is-old-age-poverty-on-the-rise-in-lithuania-a-first-look-at-the-annual-lis-data-series-for-2009-2017/
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Following Ranaldi’s ICI index, Roberto Iacono and Elisa Palagi study how the heterogeneity in the factor income shares of individuals compares in the Nordic countries.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/still-the-lands-of-equality-on-the-heterogeneity-of-individual-factor-income-shares-in-the-nordics/
Pedro Salas Rojo and Juan Gabriel Rodríguez use Machine Learning techniques to explore the role of any inheritances received in shaping wealth distribution in five OECD countries.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/the-role-of-inheritance-on-wealth-inequality-a-machine-learning-approach/
Launch of a new version of LISSY which includes a fully web-based interface and graphing functionalities.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/lissy-upgrade/
LIS data included in Khan Academy tutorial!
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/khan-academy-includes-lis-data-in-their-tutorials-in-partnership-with-the-new-york-times/
Ninth call for the InGRID-2 Visiting Grants is Now Open. Deadline for application is May 1, 2020.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/ninth-call-for-the-ingrid-2-visiting-grants-is-now-open/
Due to the current outbreak of Coronavirus (COVID-19), the 2020 LIS Summer Workshop has been cancelled.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/the-2020-lis-summer-workshop-is-cancelled/
Thirteen new micro datasets are added to the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) Database, and one new dataset to the Luxembourg Wealth Study (LWS) Database.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/2020-spring-data-release/
One new dataset from the Czech Republic, CZ16 (Wave X) has been added to the LIS Database. The dataset is from the 2017 wave of the Survey on Income and Living Conditions (SILC) carried out by the Czech Statistical Office. In addition, an error in variable status1 (status in employment, main job) has been corrected […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/czech-republic-2016-added-to-the-lis-database/
Five new datasets from Canada, CA12 (Wave IX), CA14 (Wave IX), CA15 (Wave X), CA16 (Wave X), and CA17 (Wave X) have been added to the LIS Database. The datasets are based on the Canadian Income Survey (CIS) carried out by Statistics Canada. In addition, variables hc41 (actual rent), hc4 (actual rent and utilities), hxmort […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/canada-2012-2014-2015-2016-and-2017-added-to-lis-database/