Auf Grund mehrerer Faktoren sind Rentnerinnen und Rentner finanziell weniger stark von der Corona-Krise betroffen als die Erwerbstätigen. Paradoxerweise werden Rentner sogar durch die Effekte der Krise langfristig bessergestellt. Dies hat unterschiedliche Gründe, die hier erläutert werden: Zunächst treten Rentenanpassungen immer ein bis zwei Jahre zeitversetzt ein. Krisenbedingte Lohnverluste der Beitragszahler treten hingegen unmittelbar ein: So stieg die Zahl der Arbeitslosen (1) , sowie die der Kurzarbeiter ab März/April 2020 stark an (2) . Die Rentnerinnen und Rentner haben hingegen im

MEA researchers analyzed the willingness to get vaccinated against the background of demographic, socio-economic and health factors of people in Europe and Israel. A new MEA study reveals which factors influence the willingness for vaccination across Europe. To find out more about people who do not want to be vaccinated or are still undecided, the researchers Bergmann, Hannemann, Bethmann and Schumacher used data from the second SHARE Corona Survey. SHARE, the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, very recently collected data on vaccination uptake and a number of influential factors for

Die diesjährige SENECA-Medaille für Alternsforschung des Industrie-Clubs Düsseldorf ging an den Direktor der sozialpolitischen Abteilung des MPISOC, Axel Börsch-Supan. Am 29. September 2021 wurde der Preis feierlich in Form einer bronzenen Münze, die das Abbild des Philosophen Seneca zeigt, verliehen. Börsch-Supan erhielt den Preis für seine grundlegende Forschung zu der gesellschaftspolitisch relevanten Frage der Erwerbsbeteiligung im Alter. Konkret werden sein Engagement in der Erforschung der Produktivität älterer Arbeitnehmer und seine Analysen des deutschen Rentensystems vor dem Hintergrund

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 Society about the social sciences and humanities. The findings on life satisfaction in old age are based on the large-scale long-term study Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE), which is coordinated by the Institute's Social Policy Department, the Munich Center for the Economics of Aging . SHARE uses interviews conducted at

MEA director Axel Börsch-Supan was invited by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) to present the long term structural economic challenges on demographic change. He presented the recommendations of the French “Commission of Experts for Major Future Economic Challenges” to President Macron on “Demographic change: aging, health and immigration” which was recently published. The working group was led by Börsch-Supan and further consisted of Claudia Diehl, Professor of Sociology at the University of Konstanz, and Carol Propper, Professor of Economics at the Imperial College London. The group

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 Management in the Department of Economics and Politics on August 1, 2021. Health Economist Farbmacher spent 10 years at the Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA) as head of the research unit “Health Econometrics” and senior researcher. His main research interests are in the areas of "health and labor economics". In the future, the methodological