Research centre and network carrying out national and international socioeconomic studies and developing comparative socioeconomic micro- databases, with the aim of providing instruments for analysing, programming and simulating socioeconomic policies.
Databases include:
(a) the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS): an international comparative study on income distribution (since 1983); countries involved: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, the Nederlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America; in negotiation: Greece, Portugal, Turkey, Korea, Taiwan
(b) Luxembourg Employment Study (LES): an international comparative study using datasets from the Labour Force Surveys (since 1993); in its pilot phase, the study comprises countries with markedly different labour market structures: Austria, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Hungary, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States
(c) PACO-Households: panel comparability project on households (since 1990); focusing on the international comparison of the already existing longitudinal studies on living conditions of households; from 1990 to 1993, CEPS/INSTEAD was, within the framework of the European Science Foundation, the Centre of the Network for Panel Studies of Households, involving Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Sweden, United Kingdom, and as observers, the USA and Spain; this network is continuing to develop at CEPS/INSTEAD and is currently including Eastern panel data (Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic (to be implemented). Data also available on CDROM
(d) PACO-Firms”, a panel comparability project on firms (since 1988) involving Luxembourg on the national level and, on the regional level, Belgium (Wallonie), Denmark (South), France (Lorraine), Germany (Niedersachsen, Saar, Ruhr) as well as the United States (South Florida). Data also available on CDROM