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Institute for Social Policy - Social Policy

The field of social policy deals with the general theoretical foundations of social policy, above all with three fields of research. For each of these research lines, a number of different questions are examined, which are answered with the help of a broad spectrum of social and economic theories and using a variety of quantitative and qualitative methods. In addition, each of the three research lines takes into account three cross-cutting issues in particular: Europe, Gender and Aging.

Poverty and Inequality

Several research projects of the Institute for Social Policy deal with issues of poverty and inequality and thus with problem areas that also provide information about the effectiveness of the prevailing social system ...

Health and care

Health enjoys individual and societal high esteem. At the same time, social security in the case of sickness and long-term care is facing great and varied challenges ....

Economy of social services

Social services play an important role in the provision of social services to disadvantaged groups and are at the same time an essential economic factor ...