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Fractures in the Austrian model of long-term care
The COVID-19 pandemic highlights limitations of long-term care (LTC) systems in Europe, which continue to be divided between health and social care, and between formal and informal care. This article focuses on Austria’s LTC sector and its critical features that became visible during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more ...
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Bridge Building in the Spotlight
Findings of the Con3Post project
The findings of the Con3Post project investigating mobility and posting flows between third countries, EU-sending and EU-receiving countries indicated that immigration of third country national (TCN) workers is driven largely by economic discrepancies and wage disparities between the third countries and EU countries, as well as political and economic instabilities in the third countries. We found that
- some companies have become quite active in the wider European markets providing services through posting of TCNs, which has in many cases become a business model for profit maximisation;
- the intersection of the migration and employment regimes may enhance the vulnerabilities of posted TCN workers, who tend not to defy or report their employers, on whom they depend not only for employment but also for the renewal of their work and residence permits in the sending country;
- despite the mechanisms for control and enforcement of national/EU standards, the vulnerability of TCN posted workers persists due to the cloaking effect of the posting employment characterised by subcontracting, cross-border mobility and temporary service provision.
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New projects
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New publications
EESPN newsletter: November 2021 issue
We would like to introduce the November 2021 issue of the EESPN newsletter. We feature new projects, calls & publications on new social policy measures relevant to the Bridge Building (BB) region. Read more more
New report: Ageing in Europe – From North to South
This white paper report edited by elf (European Liberal Forum) covers three parts: (1) synthesising EU-wide statistics of key indicators related to the ageing population, (2) describing and comparing country-specific cases from Finland, Austria and more
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Online events
ELA training: EU labour mobility regulatory framework
Our colleague Sonila Danaj delivered a lecture on 'The posting of third country nationals via EU Member States' at the training module on the EU labour mobility regulatory framework organized by PWC on behalf of the European Labour more
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