Welcome to the European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research
The European Centre is a UN-affiliated intergovernmental organization concerned with all aspects of social welfare policy and research.
On the website you find information about projects, events, websites from 2006 - 2010 and some milestones before 2006; all book series, all books outside the series enriched with downloads, cross-references and external links.
You may access the information via Research Areas or the Country Focus too.
This allows you to view our latest research results and find contact persons.
Executive Director is Prof. Dr. Bernd Marin (information and articles).
Paying for Long-term Care
The September Policy Brief by Ricardo Rodrigues and Andrea Schmidt aims to present information on the current picture of public and private expenditure on long-term care for older people and to discuss the challenges of financing care. Moreover it provides preliminary results on potential redistribution effects of home care benefits (based on SHARE data). By that, the Policy Brief tries not only to take a policy-oriented, comparative view on funding arrangements for long-term care but also to serve as a starting point for further discussions on the potential inequalities associated with the different ways of financing and providing long-term care.
Fiscal Policy and Sustainability in View of Crisis and Population Ageing in Central and Eastern European Countries
Our August Policy Brief by Asghar Zaidi and Malgorzata Rejniak examines the interrelated aspects of the fiscal and economic policy as well as the impact of population ageing on the sustainability of public finances in the wake of the recent economic crisis. More
Recent Columns by Bernd Marin
In Der Standard, Wien:
Leiden der Reichen (10 August 2010)
Wir sind Kaiser (27 July 2010)
Peter F. Drucker Centennial (pdf in English)
Peter F. Drucker Centennial (pdf in German)
Peter F. Drucker Centennial (pdf in French)
Peter F. Drucker Centennial (pdf multilanguage)
