The free movement of workers is one of the greatest achievements of European integration, explains Prof. Ulrich Becker in "Dossier Politik" of the broadcast station Bayern2. However, this should not call into question the social and economic order in the Member States. In order to guarantee better protection for all EU citizens in the event of unemployment, Becker suggests the introduction of a European unemployment insurance system.

Anastasia Poulou, researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy, was honoured by the German-Greek association of lawyers (DGJV) for her dissertation. The award is assigned to academic papers, which are especially beneficial for German-Greek legal relationships. In her thesis titled "Der Schutz sozialer Grundrechte in Zeiten der Krise. Zur Rekonzeptualisierung der sozialen Dimension Europas", Poulou analyses whether the austerity measures, which were implemented during the euro crisis in Greece and Portugal, amongst others, violate individual as well as social basic

Prof. Axel Börsch-Supan, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy, has received the Bavarian State Medal for Social Merit. The Bavarian state government hereby acknowledges his exemplary research in the field of social security systems, among other things. Photographs of the award ceremony can be found here.

(München, 24.01.2017) In der BILD Zeitung wurde unter dem Stichwort „Die 2:1 Formel / die neue Rentenformel" über einen Vorschlag berichtet, den Prof. Axel Börsch-Supan bereits 2007 machte und der u. a. von der OECD (2011) und dem wissenschaftlichen Beirat beim BMWI in einem aktuellen Gutachten aufgegriffen wurde. Anlass für die Berichterstattung der BILD Zeitung war eine Stellungnahme von Prof. Börsch-Supan bei der öffentlichen Anhörung des Ausschusses für Arbeit und Soziales am 23. Januar 2017: Zustimmung und Ablehnung zur Anhebung des Rentenniveaus . Seinen Beitrag zur öffentlichen Anhörung

Using SHARE data from eleven countries Tabea Bucher-Koenen, scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy, Liudmila Antonova and Fabrizio Mazzonna investigate the effects of economic crises that people experience during their prime working age (20-50) on their health later in life. The results show that individuals who experienced a strong recession, where GDP dropped by almost 1%, rate their subjective health as worse and have worse objectively measured health compared to persons who did not go through an economic crisis. This effect is significantly stronger for people

The daily newspaper BILD reported on 24 January 2017 under the heading of “The 2:1 formula / the new pension formula” about a proposal which was brought forward by Prof. Axel Börsch-Supan already in 2007. The idea had been taken up by the OECD in 2011 as well as, only recently, by the Scientific Advisory Board of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. The current media coverage relates to a statement that Börsch-Supan, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy, gave at a public hearing of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs on 23 January