Synopsis

MeDIM is a research project co-funded by the Luxembourg Fonds National de la Recherche in its VIVRE programme (contract FNR/VIVRE/06/15/08) for the period March 2007-March 2010 and by core funding for CEPS/INSTEAD by the Ministry of Culture, Higher Education and Research of the G.-D. of Luxembourg.

MeDIM is a project for economic and quantitative research in the measurement of discrimination, inequality and economic mobility. The objective is to develop and refine original micro-econometric, quantitative methods of analysis. The project is both empirical and theoretical, with applications to actual, relevant socio-economic issues. Applications are meant to identify practical difficulties and pitfalls, and demonstrate the relevance and applicability of the proposed methods.

Empirical applications primarily focus on (i) the socio-economic performance and labour market assimilation of immigrants in Luxembourg and (ii) the labour market performance of women relative to men. These issues have been relatively under-researched in the country and the applications undertaken in the project aim at filling this gap.

Efforts are put on 'technological transfer' to end-users by packaging and distributing ready-to-use software aiming at facilitating the adoption of the methods developed and/or implemented in the course of the project.