LIS Summer Workshop Series
 

The 2008 LIS Summer Workshop will be held in Walferdange
  - University of Luxembourg Campus -
from July 7 to July 12
(with arrival on July 6 and departure on July 13)

The 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. We welcome applications from researchers with varying levels of knowledge and experience.

The Luxembourg Income Study has made comparable over 160 large microdata sets that contain comprehensive measures of income, employment and household characteristics for 30 industrialized countries (Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, the United Kingdom and the United States).

The language of instruction is English. 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 Jäntti, the LIS staff and guest lecturers. In addition, the winner of the annual Aldi Hagenaars Memorial will present his/her paper (see Aldi Hagenaars Memorial  Award page). The 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 new Luxembourg Wealth Study (LWS).

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

Download 2008 LIS Summer Workshop Application (due April 4, 2008)

Past Workshops
2007 Introductory Workshop

The 2007 workshop was held in Walferdange (University of Luxembourg Campus) from June 24 to June 30, 2007.

Maria Concetta Chiuri won the 2007 Aldi Hagenaars Award for her paper:
Do the Elderly Reduce Housing Equity? An International Comparison
co-written with Tullio Jappelli, June2006 (LIS Working Paper #436)

 (see Aldi Hagenaars Memorial  Award page)

IMPRESSIONS FROM 2007 WORKSHOP
 

Full Package (distributed at workshop)

1. Agenda

2. Directions and Miscellaneous Information

3. Travel Form

4. Reading List

5. Bruce Bradbury and Jäntti, Markus. 1999. "Child Poverty Across Industrialized Nations." In Innocenti Occasional Papers, Economic and Social Policy Series, No. 71. UNICEF, International Child Development Centre: Florence.
6. Jäntti, Markus. 1997. "Inequality in Five Countries in the 1980s: The Role of Demographic Shifts, Markets and Government Policies," Economica 65(255): 415-440.
7. Brandolini, Andrea and Timothy M. Smeeding. 2006. "Inequality: International Evidence." Mimeo. February
8. Förster, Michael F. and Koen Vleminckx. 2004. "International comparisons of income inequality and poverty: Findings from the Luxembourg Income Study," Socio-Economic Review v2 n2 p191-212
9. Gornick, Janet C. 2004. "Women’s economic outcomes, gender inequality, and public policy: Findings from the Luxembourg Income Study," Socio-Economic Review v2 n2 p213-238
10. Atkinson, A.B. 2004. "Luxembourg Income Study (LIS): past, present and future". In Socioeconomic Review, Vol. 2, No. 2, Pp: 165-190
11. Thirteenth International Conference of Labour Statisticians. Resolution concerning statistics of the economically active population, employment, unemployment and underemployment, adopted by the Thirteenth International Conference of Labour Statisticians (October 1982)
12. Jenkins, Stephen. 1991. "The Measurement of Income Inequality." In Lars Osberg (ed.) Economic Inequality and Poverty International Perspectives. ME Sharpe. (Chapter 1) pp3-38.

     

National Workshops

Parallel to regular workshops, we organize national workshops on the countries' requests, for example, 

- 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