The Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy (german: Max-Planck-Institut für Sozialrecht und Sozialpolitik) is a research facility located in

Maxvorstadt Maxvorstadt ( Central Bavarian: ''Maxvorstod'') is a central borough of Munich, Bavaria, Germany and forms the Stadtbezirk (borough) 3 Maxvorstadt. Since 1992, this borough comprises the former boroughs 5, 6 and 7 (Maxvorstadt-Universität, Maxvo ...

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History

The Institute was created in 1976 by the Max Planck Society. Upon completion in 1980, the

Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Social Law The Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Social Law (german: Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Sozialrecht) was a research institute devoted to the field of foreign and international social law. It was one of ...

merged into it. Its director until 1990 was

Hans F. Zacher Hans Friedrich Zacher (22 June 1928 – 18 February 2015) was a German academician. He was a professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and was the President of the Max Planck Society from 1990 till 1996. Biography Zacher was born in ...

, who was succeeded by Bernd Baron von Maydell until 2002. Since then, the director has been Ulrich Becker. In July 2011 the institute were enlarged with a second department, the Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA) headed by Axel Börsch-Supan. Since then the institute is called Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy.

Conducted Research

The Department of Foreign and International Social Law is dedicated to fundamental research in the field of foreign and international social law. The Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA) studies the micro- and macroeconomic aspects of demographic change including saving and retirement decisions, pension systems, health of older people. Also the

Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) is a multidisciplinary and cross-national panel database of micro data on health, socio-economic status and social and family networks. In seven survey waves to date, SHARE has conduc ...

is coordinated at MEA.Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe: Organisation
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References

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