Publications by Type: Other publications

2025

Context matters: Longitudinal associations between childhood adversity and mental health outcomes of middle-aged and older adults in 26 countries during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Understanding the long-term impact of childhood adversity on mental health is crucial, particularly during public health crises like the COVID-19 pandemic. Emerging evidence highlights that contextual factors, such as the pandemic, interact with early-life experiences to influence mental health outcomes. However, little is known about how childhood adversity affected mental health across different phases of the pandemic among older adults.

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INFO-POW Project Survey Dataset on Posting and Receiving Companies in the Construction Sector

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The dataset contains original data collected through an online survey targeted at posting and receiving companies about their access to information regarding the posting of workers. As the first of its kind, this pilot survey study provides a window into the posting information access practices, challenges, needs, and recommendations of posting and receiving companies in the construction sector. 

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Contractual chains and recruitment patterns of posted third-country nationals

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The study analyses the experience of posted TCN workers in selected case study countries – Poland, Portugal and Slovenia – and during their posting assignments to other EU Member States.

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Internationale Modelle und Erfahrungen ressourcenorientierter Langzeitpflege

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The Austrian Committee of Social Work (Österreichisches Komitee für Soziale Arbeit) published the summaries of key-notes presented at their annual meeting on 7 November 2024 in Klagenfurt, focusing on ”Care as a scarce asset”. Kai Leichsenring contributed with considerations on resource-oriented long-term care in an international context.

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2024

GDPoweR Data Visualization Code

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The GDPoweR Data Visualization project is an open-source R-based tool developed by researchers at the European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research to support the analysis of data retrieved through Subject Access Requests by platform workers. It enables the creation of interactive dashboards from potentially large and disjointed datasets, providing users with access to clearly structured statistics and visualizations related to earnings, work schedules, deliveries, and location data.

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