Are Swedes more satisfied in old age than Germans? How can this be measured? And do children make you happy? Our scientist Dr. Thorsten Kneip provides answers to these questions in the new episode of "Ach, Mensch!", a podcast series by the Max Planck...

MEA director Axel Börsch-Supan was a member of the French “Commission of Experts for Major Future Economic Challenges” and working group leader on "Demographic change: aging, health and immigration” in France, which also published its...

In order to mitigate the economic hardships of the COVID-19 pandemic, governments all over Europe have introduced extensive labour market and social policy measures. In response, the question has been raised in public and scholarly debate in how far...

Which pension system is the best? Even though there is no simple answer to this question, the Pension Maps of the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy for the first time offer an easy-to-understand, visualised overview of pension...