The Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) has made comparable more the 70 large microdata sets which contain comprehensive measures of income and economic well-being for more than 25 modern industrialized welfare states. In addition, in 1995, the Luxembourg Employment Study (LES) database, which consists of fifteen labor force datasets, has been added. The LIS and LES datasets are accessible to researchers at low cost via electronic mail. This truly comparable micordata creates a rich resource for applied comparative and policy research in economics, sociology, and public policy.
Two workshops will be held during 1996, both in Walferdange Luxembourg. The first, from July 14th through the 20th will be an introductory workshop aimed primarily at Russian and Eastern European students and other students with little or no LIS research experience. The second, from July 21st through the 27th, will be a more advanced workshop for experienced LIS users with more advanced topics such as microsimulation and pooling country datasets using the LIS data. Guest lecturers will cover such topics as aging, poverty and inequality, single parents, gender issues, and the use of the Luxembourg Employment Study. Participants will learn to use the LIS operating system which includes access modes using SAS as well as SPSS. Workshop faculty will include Tim Smeeding, Overall Project Director; Lee Rainwater, LIS Research Director; John Coder, LIS Technical Director; Marc Cigrang, LIS Systems Consultant, and other experienced LIS users. Additional faculty participants are expected to include: Frank Cowell, Janet Gornick, Peter Gottschalk, Johan Fritzell, Marcus Jantii and Stephen Jenkins.
Tuition is $1200 US dollars (35,000 FLUX) and covers instructional materials, coffee breaks, hotel rooms and full board. Transportation to and from Luxembourg is the responsibility of the students, except for Russian and Eastern European scholarship students sponsored by the Ford Foundation. Each workshop is limited to 20 participants. Students accepted for the workshop will be sent LIS User packages upon acceptance, and access to the LIS dataset to continue one's research project is free.
For more information or an
application, contact
Inge O'Connor, Administrative Assistant
Luxembourg Income Study
Project Center for Policy Research
426 Edgers Hall
Syracuse University
Syracuse, New York 13244-1090
Tel. (315) 443-4526
FAX (315) 443-1081
e-mail:
Lisa@maxwell.syr.edu
Or in Europe contact:
Caroline de Tombeur, Administrative Assistant
LIS at CEPS/INSTEAD
B.P. 65
L-7201 Walferdange, Luxembourg
Tel. (352) 33 32 33-518
Fax (352)33 25 19
e-mail:
caroline@post.ceps.lu