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What is LIS?
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LIS is a cross-national data center located in Luxembourg which serves a global community of researchers, educators, and policy makers.
LIS acquires datasets with income, wealth, employment, and demographic data from many high- and middle-income countries, harmonises them to enable cross-national comparisons, and makes them publicly available in two databases, the Luxembourg Income Study Database (LIS) and the Luxembourg Wealth Study Database (LWS).
LIS is an internationally respected venue for cross-national research in the social sciences, serving as a host of international conferences, visiting scholars, and pre-and postdocs and a virtual host for scholarly exchange.
Our mission is to enable, facilitate, promote, and conduct cross-national comparative research on socio-economic outcomes and on the institutional factors that shape those outcomes.
What's new?
We mourn the loss of Prof. Dr. Dieter Ferring
It is with deep sadness that we announce the death of Prof. Dr. Dieter Ferring
LIS is Hiring
LIS is seeking applications for a Microdata Expert
Summer Data Release
Two New datasets from Guatemala and five datasets from Greece, Slovenia and Slovakia have been added to respectively the LIS and the LWS Databases
2018 LIS/LWS User Conference
Call for Papers - 2018 LIS/LWS User Conference dedicated to Tony Atkinson and his contribution to the development of the research on inequality