In this article, Arthur B. Kennickell develops illustrative examples applied to the Survey of Consumer Finances to highlight some of the problems in making comparisons of wealth inequality measures when there are specific defects in the measurement of the upper tail of the distribution.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/estimates-of-wealth-inequality-and-right-tail-coverage-an-illustration-of-oversampling-in-the-survey-of-consumer-finances/
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Upcoming lecture on Inequality and the SDGs by Dr. Lidia Ceriani (Georgetown University) on Tuesday, 11 March 2020, 13h00 at the European Investment Bank.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/lecture-series-inequality-and-the-sdgs/
Daniele Checchi, Petra Sauer, and Philippe Van Kerm host a stream on “Methodologies for comparative social policy analysis” at ESPAnet 2020 in Leuven.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/lis2er-stream-at-espanet-2020-leuven/
Application for the 2020 LIS Summer Workshop is now open!
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/application-for-the-lis-summer-workshop-2020-is-now-open/
2020 version of Comparative Welfare States Data Set is now added
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/comparative-welfare-states-dataset-2020/
Upcoming lecture on Inequality and Justice by Prof. Roberto Galbiati on Tuesday, 11 February 2020, 13h00 at the European Investment Bank.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/lecture-series-inequality-and-politics/
Upcoming lecture on Inequality and Justice by Prof. Guillermina jasso on Wednesday, 22 January 2020, 13h00 at the European Investment Bank.
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/lecture-series-inequality-and/
Video interviews from the first ERF-LIS Conference on "Inequality Trends Around the Mediterranean"
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/interviews-from-the-first-erf-lis-conference-on-inequality-trends-around-the-mediterranean/
LIS is delighted to announce the addition of Luxembourg to the LWS Database. Two data points have been added; LU14 (Wave IX), LU10 (Wave VIII). The datasets are based on the Luxembourg Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS), acquired from Banque Centrale du Luxembourg (BCL) .
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/luxembourg-new-country-in-lws/
One new datasets from Germany, DE17 (Wave X) has been added to the LWS Database. The dataset is based on the wealth module included in the 2017 (34/BH) wave of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) carried out by German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), the same survey included in the LIS Database. Due to the […]
https://www.lisdatacenter.org/news-and-events/germany-2017-added-to-lws-database/