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Esch-Belval, Luxembourg
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LISER, LIS, and SHARE Luxembourg
Registration is free but required, please register until November 18.
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📣 2025 (LIS)²ER–SHARE Joint Workshop #Pensions & Old-Age #WellBeing: Policy Challenges in #Ageing Societies 📅 27–28 Nov 2025 | 📍 #Luxembourg
Two days of research and discussion on ageing, health, retirement, and inequality, concluding with a policy roundtable.
4/ #InequalityMatters features three contributions:
🗒️Denys Orlov on savings, #financialliteracy & demographics in the UK
🗒️Chiara Mussida & Dario Sciulli on #inworkpoverty across 22 European countries
🗒️Jörg Neugschwender on household incomes in #Luxembourg & neighbours
3/ Other data updates:
LIS Database
▶️France: FR21, FR22
▶️Luxembourg: LU22, LU23
▶️Switzerland: CH20, CH21, CH22
▶️Uruguay: UY23, UY24
▶️Germany: DE21, DE22 (LIS + LWS now based on GSOEP-Core v40.1eu)
LWS Database
▶️UK: UK21 (LWS)
2/ The biggest news: India joins the LWS Database 🇮🇳
Four datasets (IN91, IN02, IN12, IN18) from AIDIS/NSS rounds are now harmonised — bringing new insights from one of the world’s largest economies.
1/ The new issue of #InequalityMatters is out! 📊
It combines major LIS/LWS data updates with latest research on inequality.
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LIS retweeted
New Capitalism II:
Compositional vs income inequality
Are all class-based societies unequal?
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"False Negatives? Earnings Underreporting, Tax Overreporting in Surveys Worldwide"
by Vladimir Hlasny
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"Comparing Child Poverty Using the Luxembourg Income Study and Policy Recommendations"
by Jonathan Bradshaw, Gianluca Munalli, and Dominic Richardson
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"Occupational Assortative Mating and Gender Inequality in Earnings"
by Supriya Lakhtakia, Deepak Malghan, and Hema Swaminathan
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📢 New Data & Research Insights!
--#InequalityMatters, Issue 34, June 2025 is out!--
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3/ 💰 Income Distribution Explorer
Dive into median incomes across countries and over time.
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2/ 📊 Inequality Explorer
Compare Gini coefficients across countries—how income is distributed after taxes.
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1/ 📉 Poverty Explorer
See how many people live below $30/day (after tax, adjusted for household size).
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🚨 New map features on @OurWorldInData! 🌍
OWID just rolled out upgrades to their data explorers—more intuitive, and easier to compare the LIS data.
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🔗 Try it now
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💬Feedback, issues, and ideas are welcome!
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