This Jean Monnet Policy Lab was supported by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union

The increase in life expectancy of today’s aging society meanseans individuals must prepare for a longer length of retirement. However, an adequate pension becomes more complicated with increased work-related mobility in Europe as more individuals have fractioned contributions to different social security systems.

During the first part of this Jean Monnet Europa Policy Lab, Dr López-Falcón explored the impact of mobility histories on the current living conditions of the population 50+ in Europe. The analysis was conducted using the most recent retrospective microdata from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). 

The second part of the Policy Lab explored the challenges of collecting and using contextual information –from macro to institutional data- for the analysis of social policies linked to population developments. The session included a hands-on session where participants were able to explore the resources offered in the Social Policy and Law Shared Database (SPLASH). The database has been developed as an openly accessible contextual database supporting microdata analysis and promoting policy oriented research

Dr Diana López-Falcón is a Senior Researcher and Head of the Research Data Center from the Munich Centre for the Economics of Aging, a division of the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Policy. 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.