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

Max Planck Research Initiative Submits Final Report - Five years after the "long summer of migration" of 2015, the research initiative "The Challenges of Migration, Integration and Exclusion" (WiMi) has submitted its research report "Wir haben das geschafft – und uns verändert" ["We managed - and changed in the process"] to the Max Planck Society. In the report, the researchers take initial stock of the course of events of 2015 and present eight recommendations from their findings, which they have summarized in a position paper. Dr. Constantin Hruschka is one of the two authors of the report

Study by the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy analyses its impact and courts‘ role in safeguarding social rights - In the middle of the corona crisis, which is strongly affecting economies all over the world, the recently published study of the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy is more topical than ever. The book "European Welfare State Constitutions after the Financial Crisis" scrutinises the reforms in social protection implemented during the European financial crisis that started to spread in 2007/2008. “The pandemic is now hitting the social systems

Fragen der Behinderung und Teilhabe waren zehn Jahre lang fester Bestandteil der Forschung des Max-Planck-Instituts für Sozialrecht und Sozialpolitik in München. Wissenschaftlich nachgegangen wurde ihr zwischen 2010 und 2020 von der Max Planck Fellow-Gruppe, einem interdisziplinären Team an Forscher/innen. Was in dieser Zeit erreicht wurde und welche Forschungspotenziale noch auszuschöpfen sind, hat Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Wacker, Leiterin der Fellow-Gruppe und Inhaberin des Lehrstuhls für Diversitätssoziologie an der TU München , in dem jetzt erschienenen Open Access-Beitrag „ Teilhabefokus und

The second wave of the coronavirus has Europe in its grip. Governments have again imposed lockdowns and, as a result, have prolonged and/or increased financial assistance programmes. The legal research team led by Prof. Dr. Ulrich Becker has now updated the study "Securing Existence in the Corona Crisis" , which was presented in May. The newly published follow-up volume "Protecting Livelihoods in the COVID-19 Crisis: Legal Comparison of Measures to Maintain Employment, the Economy and Social Protection" from the series Working Papers Law contains an evaluation of the measures adopted until the

The interdisciplinary research initiative of the Max Planck Society, "The Challenges of Migration, Integration and Exclusion" , presented a number of its final results after three years of intensive work. Particularly, the researchers from the six participating Max Planck Institutes have evaluated the impact of the migration crisis of 2015 on governance: Have the legal and administrative provisions met the challenges? How can we improve to be better prepared for future immigration waves? Dr. Constantin Hruschka and Tim Rohmann , researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social