This chapter presents the experiences of a country with a well-established welfare state during the Covid crisis. Austria’s labour market, key infrastructures and health system were stabilised by unprecedented policy measures. However, the pandemic also highlighted a number of major shortcomings of the regulatory framework of social and health policy responses. A special focus is being put on long-term care as this sector has been hit particularly hard in terms of mortality, related structural shortcomings and political debates.
In this report we analysed the effects of an increase of the minimum pension top-up in Austria with the tax/benefit-microsimulation model EUROMOD based on latest EU-SILC data.
The final outputs of the FELM project have been published in a final report that includes a regulatory, quantitative and qualitative analysis of third-country companies and workers' access, trends and characteristics in the European construction market.
This report examines the effects of changing social care models, evolving user needs, and the increased use of digital tools and technologies on the skills and training needs of workers in social care services.
