The Social Policy and Law Shared Database (SPLASH) represents a milestone in the evolution of multiple contextual data projects involving the support and vision of several partner institutions. During the first session of this Jean Monnet Europa Policy Lab, Dr López-Falcón will introduce SPLASH and present its potential in offering access to contextual databases for microdata analysis, a data map of external data sources, and a broad collection of policies related to population developments throughout Europe.

The second part of the Policy Lab will explore the interaction of migration and employment histories on the living conditions of the population 50+ using retrospective microdata from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). The survey contains detailed information about migration and employment histories, as well as key measures of the living conditions of respondents from up to 27 European countries and Israel. During the presentation, Dr López-Falcón will explore the characteristics of the data sources considered and how they allow answering our main research questions. She will present some preliminary results and discuss how the current project aims to nurture the database project SPLASH.

Program
11.30am - 12.30pm: The Social Policy and Law Shared Database (SPLASH)
12.30pm - 1.15pm: Lunch
1.15pm - 2:30pm: Migration in Times of Retirement: Mobile Pensioners and Pensioners Who Were Mobile

Dr Diana López-Falcón is Senior Researcher and Head of the Research Data Center of the Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA) at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy in Munich. She coordinates the contextual database project “Social Policy and Law Shared Database (SPLASH)” and the Research Data Center of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). She holds a PhD in Demography and a Master of Research in Applied Economics from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and a BA in Economics from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). Her research interests include international migration, inequality, aging processes and population economics. She is currently working on the analysis of the trajectories and the living conditions of migrants, as well as on the development of a migration survey in Germany.

This Jean Monnet Europa Policy Lab is presented with the support of the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.