Established 1978 Administrative staff 122 Founded 1978 | President Nicole KERSCHEN Phone +352 58 58 55 1 | |
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Location Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg Address 11 Porte des Sciences, 4366 Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg Similar Luxembo Institute of Science a, Resource Centre for Healthcar, University of Luxembo, Agora Sàrl et Cie, Le Fonds Belval Profiles | ||
The Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) is a research centre located in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg.
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LISER is a Luxembourgish public research institute under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Higher Education and Research. Its research focus lies in the field of social and economic policy including the spatial dimension. This comprises topics like poverty, inequality, education, social inclusion, employment, unemployment, health, housing, mobility, and regional convergence. The aim is to improve the understanding of causal relationships and to provide sound evidence for the impact of institutional settings and policy options on outcomes. Based on empirical evidence, the Institute wants to provide well-grounded and clear-cut answers to policy relevant questions. The results are published in form of research reports, monographs and scientific articles.
LISER has been integrated into a unified legal framework for the luxembourgish research institutes based on the law of 3 December 2014. It has an annual budget of approximately 18,5 million euro, of which 60% is allocated by the government, and 40% are coming from project related funding resources. Governmental funding is based on a multiannual performance contract.
Research
Luxembourg and the Greater Region provide a unique and excellent laboratory for investigating social policy issues that are of key importance for the process of European integration. Substantial institutional differentials within a relatively small distance and their impact on cross-border activities like firm location, household mobility, monetary flows, and the like are generating an abundance of research topics, which are of relevance for a better understanding of the mechanisms of economic and social convergence or divergence.
The research activities are organised among three research departments and a transversal coordination unit. Their mission consists of producing relevant insights for social and economic policy based on empirical evidence. The department "Labor Market" is primarily addressing the process of labor income determination, both from the worker's perspective as well as from the perspective of companies and employers. The department "Living Conditions" is focussing on the social aspects of income and wealth distribution. The spatial dimension of social and economic policy is subject of the research agenda of the department "Urban Development and Mobility"..
The Institute employs 122 people, of whom 65 are researchers and PhD candidates. The research team is representing a high degree of interdisciplinarity and includes demographers, economists, geographers, legal experts, political scientists, psychologists, social scientists, and statisticians.
Labour Market
Domains of research: | Collective bargaining, trade unions, employers, collective agreements, dispute resolution, labour law | Employment policies, unemployment, European employment strategy, Europeanisation | Labour migrations, labour market, immigration, social cohesion, the Greater Region, Europe | Workers’ decisions in contexts of regional and international mobility: migration and cross-border employment | Labour force participation in particular of women and the impact of public childcare provision | Labour market performance in relationship with networks and health The matching of workers to firms and employment trajectories
Living Conditions
Domains of research: | Social mobility, earnings and income dynamics | Equality of opportunity in Europe | Measuring social cohesion and well-being | Tax-benefit systems, social policy, employment structure and inequality | The measurement of discrimination and inequality: methods and evidence | Poverty persistence: financial and non-financial dimensions | Inequality of educational attainment | Childhood and policy measures | Attitudes towards immigrants and integration | Health dynamics, health inequalities and ageing population | Socio-economic inequalities in health: determinants and cross-country comparisons | Cognitive ageing | Survey of Health Ageing and Retirement in Europe
Urban Development and Mobility
Domains of Research: | Accessibility to jobs and services by public and private transport networks | Interactions between transportation systems and land use | Land use and availability of building plots in Luxembourg | Evolution of house prices to rent and sale in Luxembourg | Assessment of housing conditions and public subsidies | Spatial mobility behavior in border areas | Sustainable mobility and electromobility | Cross-border metropolitan governance | Multiperspectivale approach to cross-border integration | Role of the media in cross-border territorial restructuring | Economic development and competitiveness of border regions.
CEPS/INSTEAD
As of December 3rd 2014 the former CEPS/INSTEAD has turned into LISER (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research).
Previously as CEPS, the Centre was composed of five research units: The Department of Population and Employment, the Department of Economics, the Department of Geography (GEODE) and the Department of International Development (ERDI).
International Master in Social Policy Analysis (IMPALLA). With the political and financial support of the Luxembourg Prime Minister and the Minister of Culture, Higher Education and Research a CEPS/INSTEAD related University Consortium was formed in order to create a Graduate School for Comparative Public Policy Analysis and Data. The University Consortium and to guarantee the academic standards of the programme, CEPS/INSTEAD had made a joint venture agreement with the Department of Sociology of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven as key partner and offers an International Master in Social Policy Analysis (IMPALLA).
Integrated Research Infrastructure in Social Sciences at CEPS/INSTEAD (IRISS) was a visitor's programme at CEPS/INSTEAD. Its mission was to organise short visits of researchers willing to undertake empirical research in economics and other social sciences using the archive of micro-data available at the Centre.
CEPS was created to research persistent poverty in industrialized countries within the framework of the First European Community Program to Combat Poverty, the Centre was given by Luxembourg law the status of a public establishment by the Prime Minister in 1989, with scientific, administrative and financial autonomy