LIS Summer Workshop Series
 

The next  LIS Annual Summer Workshop will be held in June/July 2012
on the University of Luxembourg Campus 

The Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) Summer Workshop is a one-week workshop designed to introduce researchers in the social sciences to comparative research in income distribution, employment and social policy using the LIS database. LIS welcomes applications from researchers with varying levels of knowledge and experience. The language of instruction is English.

The Luxembourg Income Study has made comparable nearly 200 microdata sets that contain comprehensive measures of income, employment and household characteristics for nearly 40 countries. The countries include: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Korea, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Poland, Romania, Russia, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Uruguay. 

By the end of the workshop, attendees will be fully trained to use the database independently. Workshop faculty includes the LIS directors, Janet Gornick and Markus Jantti, the LIS staff and guest lecturers.   

The workshop format includes a mix of lectures on comparative research, laboratory sessions and individual one-on-one advisory sessions. Attendees will also be introduced to the Luxembourg Wealth Study (LWS). 

In addition, the winners of the annual Aldi Hagenaars Memorial Award  and World Bank/LIS Gender Research Award will present their papers.

Tuition of (1,400 euros) covers instructional materials, single-occupancy accommodations, and full board. Transportation to and from Luxembourg is the responsibility of the student.

Past Workshops
2010 Introductory Workshop

The 2010 workshop was held in Walferdange (University of Luxembourg Campus) from June 27 to July 3, 2010.

NOTE!  The 2010 Workshop featured a special and unique agenda:
 Students who attended the 2010 LIS Workshop also attended an associated LIS conference:

"Inequality and the Status of the Middle Class: Lessons from the Luxembourg Income Study"

with keynote lectures by Paul Krugman and Anthony Atkinson.

2010 Workshop Agenda 
2010 Workshop Lectures

2010 Aldi Hagenaars Memorial Award
Winner is Francesco Scervini for working paper 516:  The empirics of the median voter: democracy, redistribution and the role of the middle class, written in May 2009 and revised in March 2010

National Workshops

Parallel to regular workshops, we organize national workshops on the countries' requests, for example, 
- Korean Workshop, Seoul, December 2009
- Swiss Workshop, Bern, October 2009
- Danish Workshop, Copenhagen, April 2007
- French Workshop, Paris, March 2007
- German Workshop, Mannheim, September 17-19, 2003
- Finnish Workshop,Turku, October 24-29, 2001
- European/Scandinavian Workshop, Oslo, July 31-August 04, 1995