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. 

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.

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.

Kai Leichsenring contributed to the AGAC Issue Focus Fall/Winter Edition 2024 with an overview of live-in migrant care in Europe focusing on the Austrian case. From a human rights perspective, he argues for regulating care work as a profession, monitoring brokering agencies, promoting cooperation between the home and host countries, and providing live-in care workers with access to the judicial system.

How do increasing economic risk cleavages amongst natives shape growing negativity towards immigration? Group conflict theory suggests that tension between immigrant and native groups arises as a reaction to the actual or perceived loss of economic privilege by the majority group members. Yet, such an economically rooted formation of sentiments towards immigration is widely debated. This article aims to clarify and more precisely assess the economic threat mechanisms of inter-group conflict, remedying limitations in earlier work.