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Socio-Economic Review 2:165-190 (2004)
© Oxford University Press and the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics 2004. All rights reserved.

The Luxembourg Income Study (LIS): past, present and future1

A. B. Atkinson

Nuffield College, Oxford

Correspondence: tony.atkinson{at}nuffield.oxford.ac.uk

Internationally comparable data are essential to our understanding of income inequality and its impact on our societies. The Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) has played a key role in raising to a new level such comparative analysis, and its collection of microdata has been used by a wide range of social scientists. The contribution of LIS over the past 20 years can be seen from the fact that there is now a broadly agreed picture of the differences in income inequality across OECD countries (Section 1). The present importance of LIS lies in the need to keep the picture up to date in a rapidly changing world, and in the sensitivity of analysis to data quality and comparability (Section 2). Looking to the future, it is argued that LIS will continue to be crucial, but that more needs to be done in creating long-run annual time series and in modelling the impact of policy (Section 3).

Key Words: income • distribution • inequality • data • JEL classification: C810 Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Microeconomic Data, C310 Personal Income and Wealth Distribution


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