Organisation : Faculté des Sciences Humaines, des Sciences de l’Éducation et des Sciences Sociales (FHSE)

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    Book chapter: Mapping Black Luxembourg

    by Bernardino Tavares and Aleida Vieira

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    Eist Neit Wunnen

    The survey ‘Our New Housing’ was designed to find out how Luxembourg’s residents can imagine to live.

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    Conference: Reading to young children, but how and why?

    Reading regularly to children supports their language development, awakens their desire to read, and promotes their imagination.KEYNOTE SPEAKERSProf. Claudine Kirsch, University of LuxembourgDžoen Bebić-Crestany, University of LuxembourgValérie Kemp, University of LuxembourgYou can connect online here for the English talk: https://unilu.webex.com/unilu/j.php?MTID=mbec76a8c3f3738f36e84898d0061fc79

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    SEMILUX and LIS^2ER Spring Series – Inequality, mobility and wealth concentration – Prof. James E. Foster – Analysing intergenerational mobility with oriented measures and mobility curves

    Analysing intergenerational mobility with oriented measures and mobility curvesThis seminar studies oriented measures of intergenerational mobility that differentiate between upward and downward mobility, including headcount ratios that give the incidence of upward (or downward) movements and mobility gaps that gauge the average gain (or loss). We define oriented mobility curves that graphically indicate when mobility…

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    SEMILUX and LIS^2ER Spring Series – Inequality, mobility and wealth concentration – Prof. Alexandra Killewald – For Richer: Marriage and Wealth

    For Richer: Marriage and WealthMarriage is widely considered to benefit individuals’economic well-being, including their net worth. Yet establishing the role of marriage in wealthgeneration is complicated by the dynamic and reciprocal nature of marriage and wealth: marriage is both the result of prior wealth and a potential determinant of future wealth. In this paper, we…

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    SEMILUX and LIS^2ER Spring Series – Inequality, mobility and wealth concentration – Prof. Fabian Pfeffer – The Demography of Rising Wealth Inequality

    The Demography of Rising Wealth InequalityWe determine the independent contribution of several demographic trends to rising U.S. wealth inequality over the last three decades. Using data from the Survey of Consumer Finances from 1989 through 2019 and novel decomposition techniques, we show that rapid growth in wealth inequality and increasing wealth concentration at the top…

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    Conference: Before Maastricht: Identity and Place in European Writing before the EU

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    PhD Defense: Julia Wack

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    PhD Defense: Gabriel Alejandro Rivera Cosme

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    PhD Defense: Moritz Rehm

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