Max-Planck-Institut für Sozialrecht und Sozialpolitik
The Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy is a research institute of the Max Planck Society in Munich.
History
1976, a project group for International and Comparative Social Law of the Max Planck Society was established. Upon successful completion of these was in 1980 transferred to the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Social Law. Founder and director until 1990 was the future President of the Max Planck Society Hans F. Zacher. By 2002, the Institute of Bernd Baron von Maydell was, since September 2002, it is headed by Ulrich Becker.
On 1 July 2011, the Institute was a second department, the Munich Center for the Economics of Aging ( MEA), extended. The department is headed by Axel Börsch -Supan. Since then the company operates under its new name: the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy.
Research
The Department of Foreign and International Social Law is dedicated to basic research in the field of foreign and international social law and social law. The focus systems are social risks such as illness, age, dependency, disability, unemployment and accident as well as systems of social promotion and social assistance. Of central importance is the systematic study of the major developments of social law, in particular the reforms of the social security systems in developed countries, the Europeanization and internationalization of the social law and the development of social benefit systems in developing countries.
The department Munich Center for the Economics of Aging ( MEA), is engaged in micro-and macroeconomic aspects of demographic change and thus to anticipate these and accompany. By building empirical models and consequential predictions derives from the MEA recommendations for business and politics. The MEA is involved in numerous international research networks such as SAVE (savings and pensions in Germany ) or SHARE ( Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe) and thus combines scientific research with high international claim strictly science-based policy advice. Background of these tasks is the gradually accelerating demographic change, which is one of the most important social developments in the coming decades. In addition to the socio-political consequences of the demographic change will cause a deep macroeconomic structural change, which all central markets - will affect - labor market, markets for goods and services, as well as the capital markets at home and abroad. Third means receives the MEA by numerous institutions of national and international research funding (including DFG, the Volkswagen Foundation, EU, NIA / NIH). The MEA works primarily in the impact social law regulations on economic behavior at home and abroad in close cooperation with the Department of Foreign and International Social Law.
Max Planck Fellow - headed by Elisabeth Wacker Section for inclusion in disability will generate knowledge on the change in social systems and to participate in disability. In particular, the research program includes structures, measures and effects of prevention, rehabilitation and health development in national and international perspective. The team here is concerned with the research priorities inclusion and exclusion in disability, the effects of change from tangible benefit to a cash benefit principle by the personal budget, new framework and roles in social services, the potential and limits of national and international social models and the implementation of the UN disability Rights Convention in countries of the Global South. These are linked respectively to the two cross-cutting themes "Demographic Change " and " dealing with diversity".