The James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation awarded a gift of $1.2 million to the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/gcs-stone-center-launches-new-postdoctoral-scholars-program-on-socio-economic-inequality/
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Four new datasets from Australia, Georgia and Serbia have been added to the LIS database as well as two Australian datasets to LWS
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/2018-fall-data-release/
LIS is delighted to announce that two more data points have been added to both the LIS and LWS Databases, namely, AU14 (Wave IX) and AU04 (Wave VI). The AU04 dataset is based on the 2003-04 waves of the Survey of Income and Housing (SIH) and Household Expenditure Survey (HES, wave 2003-04) carried out by […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/australia-au14-and-au04-added-to-lis-and-lws/
One new dataset from Serbia, RS16 (Wave X) has been added to the LIS Database. The dataset is based on the 2016 wave of the Household Budget Survey carried out by Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia. In addition to releasing this Wave X dataset, the entirety of the Serbian series (RS06, RS10 and […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/serbia-rs16-added-to-lis/
One new dataset from Georgia, GE16 (Wave X) has been added to the LIS Database. The dataset is based on the 2016 wave of the Integrated Household Survey (IHS) carried out by National Statistics Office of Georgia.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/georgia-ge16-added-to-lis/
The 2019 edition of the annual Research on Economic Inequality series has special interest in the question “Why inequality differs so much across countries?”
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/call-for-papers-why-inequality-differs-so-much-across-countries/
Two-day workshop organized by the Institute for Research on Socio-Economic Inequality (IRSEI) at the University of Luxembourg (in partnership with LIS/LWS)
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/ecsr-thematic-workshop-wealth-inequality-and-mobility/
In almost every country, wealth is predominantly constituted by housing equity, but what are the possible risks and how does wealth accumulation vary across countries?
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/book-on-wealth-and-homeownership/
Special Issue Comparative wealth and income research edited by Daniele Checchi and Janet Gornick is now available online
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/jid-special-issue-from-the-2017-lislws-user-conference/
This database allows LIS users to retrieve very detailed and standardized occupation categories, following the international two-digit coding of the ISCO-88 standard
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/new-complementary-database-routine-task-intensity-and-offshorability-for-the-lis/