A Transnational Database on Household Income

这是一项关于家庭收入的跨国研究。卢森堡收入研究(LIS)数据库项目包括27个工业化经济体截至1997年7月的家庭构成及其收入结构的可比微观数据。它还在另一个副标题卢森堡就业研究(LES)下增加了14个国家的劳动力调查数据。在过去的十年里，LIS项目已经证明了它作为一个国际赞助和研究人员主导的数据库基础设施项目的可行性和实用性。它为研究人员提供了一种手段，可以同时对几个国家的经济状况进行准确的跨国比较，解决诸如最先进的工业化国家目前不平等是否正在加剧等问题。特别是，它被广泛用于比较不同国家和不同时间的相对和绝对贫困水平。该奖项为卢森堡收入研究提供为期三年的核心支持。在此期间，将在数据库管理(更复杂的电子访问系统，向合格用户直接提供一些数据，更好的在线文件，1990年代中期的第四波数据，新的劳动力调查)；研究(不平等、贫困和性别研究)；培训(美国、欧洲和其他地方的年度LIS研讨会)；为收入分配统计制定新的国际标准；为收入分配研究制定购买力平价；以及向美国用户提供更直接地访问其他国家的调查方面，将有几方面的改进。卢森堡收入研究有助于经济学、社会学和社会科学的跨国比较研究。加强了这些领域的研究生教育和培训，并在数据库管理方面取得了进展。LIS促成的研究直接涉及人力资本创新的核心主题，如克服贫困和剥夺、培养成功的家庭、减少多样化社会中的不利因素、为未来教育以及雇用有生产力的劳动力。此外，它是社会科学中科学设施的原型，包括跨学科、跨国家的合作项目，加强数据基础设施并促进可能对公共政策产生重要影响的研究。

This is a transnational study of household income. The Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) database project consists of comparable microdata on the composition of households and the structure of their incomes for 27 industrialized economies as of July 1997. It has also added labor force survey data for 14 nations under another subtitle, the Luxembourg Employment Study (LES). Over the past ten years, the LIS project has demonstrated its feasibility and usefulness as an internationally sponsored and researcher-lead database infrastructure project. It provides the means for researchers to make accurate cross-national comparisons of economic status for several nations on a simultaneous basis, addressing such questions as whether inequality is currently increasing in the most advanced, industrial nations. In particular, it is used extensively to compare levels of relative and absolute poverty across countries and over time. This award provides core support for the Luxembourg Income Study for a period of three years. During that time there will be several improvements in database management (more sophisticated electronic access system, direct availability of some data to qualified users, better on-line documentation, fourth wave of data for the mid-1990s, new surveys of the labor force); in research (inequality, poverty, and gender studies); in training (annual LIS workshops in the United States, in Europe and elsewhere); in setting new international standards for income distribution statistics; in developing purchasing power parities for income distribution studies; and in providing US users with more direct access to the other nations' surveys. The Luxembourg Income Study contributes to cross-national comparative research in economics, sociology, and the social sciences more generally. It strengthens graduate education and training in these fields, and achieves advances in database management. The research made possible by the LIS directly addresses central themes of the Human Capital Init iative, such as overcoming poverty and deprivation, fostering successful families, reducing disadvantage in a diverse society, educating for the future, and employing a productive workforce. Moreover, it is a prototype for scientific facilities in the social sciences including interdisciplinary, cross-national cooperative ventures that strengthen the data infrastructure and promote research that is liable to have important public policy implications.