Between June and August 2020, SHARE’s panel respondents in 27 countries were interviewed via Computer Assisted Telephone Interviews (CATI) to collect data targeted to the COVID-19 living situation of people who are 50 years and older. The release 0.0.1 beta of SHARE Wave 8 COVID-19 data is available now for researchers. The SHARE Corona survey covers the most important life domains and asks specific questions about infections and changes in life during the lockdown: Health and health behavior, Mental health, Infections and healthcare, Changes in work and economic situation, Social networks. Find

The EU Commission accepted the proposal of the SHARE-COVID research project to investigate the health, behavioural, social and economic impact of the COVID-19 outbreak Munich, 12 August 2020. The European Commission announced to support SHARE-ERIC’s COVID-19 research project (SHARE-COVID) by funding through Horizon 2020 and the Coronavirus Global Response initiative launched by President Ursula von der Leyen in May 2020. The non-intended consequences of the epidemic control decisions to contain the COVID-19 pandemic are huge and affect the well-being of European citizens in terms of economics, social

Munich / Paris, May 29, 2020. Axel Börsch-Supan, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy, was appointed to the French “ Commission of Experts for Great Economic Challenges ” on May 29, 2020 by the French President Emmanuel Macron. The 26-member commission is made up of renowned economists from France, Europe and the USA. In December 2020, the Commission will report to the president on three main topics: climate change, inequality and demographic change. Its aim is to make recommendations to address these three major challenges. Axel Börsch-Supan will lead the working

Munich, May 12, 2020: Regarding media reports on the suspension of pension increases, Prof. Dr. h.c. Axel Börsch-Supan, Ph.D., Director of the Munich Center for the Economics of Aging at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy and Professor at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), states: "The proposal to suspend or reduce this year's pension increase needs to be rejected because it changes existing law at short notice and thus destroys the reliability of pension insurance. The pension increase is a consequence of the positive wages and employment number increases of the past

Why does the Corona crisis financially hit contributors more than pensioners - and could pensioners even financially benefit from the crisis? - Due to a variety of factors, pensioners are financially less affected by the Corona crisis than the working population. Paradoxically, pensioners will even be better off in the long term caused by the effects of the crisis. There are several reasons for this effects, which are explained in the following: Pension adjustments in Germany always occur with a delay of one or two years. Due to the positive economic development in recent years pensioners will

München, den 27. März 2020. Zum heute veröffentlichten Bericht der Rentenkommission der Bundesregierung „Verlässlicher Generationenvertrag" erklärt das Mitglied der Rentenkommission Prof. Dr. h.c. Axel Börsch-Supan Ph.D., Direktor des Munich Center for the Economis of Aging am Max-Planck-Institut für Sozialrecht und Sozialpolitik und Professor an der Technischen Universität München (TUM): „Das Ergebnis der Rentenkommission ist enttäuschend. Wer Verantwortung für kommende Generationen übernehmen will, muss sich auch mit unbequemen Themen wie Beitragssatz, Sicherungsniveau und Renteneintrittsalter