22.07.2020
How Public Opinion Is Informed by National Origins
Foreign Born Evaluate Social Security Schemes Differently than Natives - Policy makers may consult public opinion when rethinking social security. Factors that influence public opinion usually go beyo
25.05.2020
Securing Livelihood in the Corona Crisis
New Study by the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy on recent measures to safeguard jobs, the economy and social protection The Corona Pandemic plunges the global economy into crisi
15.05.2020
Radical Pension Reform
There is little doubt about the need to reform the German pension system. In an article in the FAZ (20 March 2020) and subsequently on SWR 1 (15 May 2020), Prof. Ulrich Becker, Director at the Max Pla
20.10.2019
The ILO in the 21st Century: Conference Report Online
The report on the symposium "Challenges to the ILO in the 21st Century: On the Future Role of a 100 Years Old Organisation" is now available for download (see below). On the occasion of the 100th anni
01.08.2019
Children of Single Parents: In the Poverty Trap
Almost half of all children of single parents in Germany experience poverty. This means that they and the parent with whom the roughly one million girls and boys affected live have to make do - for a
