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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...

The Max-Planck-Institute for Social Law and Social Policy (MPISOC) congratulates MEA researcher Helmut Farbmacher on his professorship at the Technical University of Munich. He took over as "Professor of Applied Econometrics" at the TUM School of...

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...

• Drei Viertel der Rentner:innen, die als arm gelten, haben keinen Anspruch auf die Grundrente.
• Gleichzeitig gehört knapp ein Viertel der Anspruchsberechtigten für die Grundrente zur vermögensreicheren Hälfte der deutschen Rentner:innen.