An evaluation examines whether access to vocational training in male-dominated sectors strengthens young women’s employment and life choices

Turning evidence into policy pathways that shape the future

The LISER Policy Lab, created by the Luxembourg Institute for Socio-Economic Research (LISER), is a pioneering initiative to tackle Luxembourg’s and Europe’s most pressing challenges.
At a time when public policies are becoming increasingly complex and costly, the LISER Policy Lab brings rigorous scientific analysis into decision-making. It provides independent, high-quality insights across areas such as economic development, climate change, public health, digitalisation, housing, education, and social cohesion.
The LISER Policy Lab follows a four-stage cycle to ensure policies remain effective and adaptable:
Built on impartiality, transparency, and collaboration, the Lab positions Luxembourg as a leader in evidence-based governance.
The LISER Policy Lab supports policy design, monitoring, and evaluation across multiple domains, aligning priorities with the needs of citizens, communities, and businesses.
Every policy choice involves timing, targeting, and trade-offs. The LISER Policy Lab equips policymakers with the analytical tools needed to activate the right levers — at the right moment, in the right place, and in the right way.
The FragMent project aims to assess how the environments in which we live and travel, as well as our daily activities, contribute to daily and chronic stress.
SHARE, the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, is a research infrastructure for studying the effects of health, social, economic and environmental policies over the life-course of European citizens and beyond.
Developing countries face significant structural challenges related to their demographic composition, poverty and inequality, insecurity, political instability, and climate change.
TRANSITER is observing and supporting the TRANSItion of TERritories, and lifestyles in Luxembourg. The TRANSITER observatory in Luxembourg leads the assessment of societal acceptance for decarbonisation and resilience measures.
MMUST is an ambitious project for modeling and simulating travel across the Greater Region.
Through cutting edge research, co-creation and collaboration with academics and stakeholders, the SURREAL project aims to develop a comprehensive and integrated understanding of the complex relationships between exposures to environments, behaviors and urban health.
WeLaR is an interdisciplinary research project examining the impact of four megatrends – digitalisation, globalisation, climate change and demographic shifts – on labour markets and welfare states in Europe.
An evaluation examines whether access to vocational training in male-dominated sectors strengthens young women’s employment and life choices
Differences in parental-leave uptake show the need to adjust the incentive framework to reduce inequalities.
Long-term trends in relative poverty stem from uneven income growth between the middle of the distribution and its lower end.