Publications by Type: Other publications

2024

Attitudes towards immigration and unemployment risk cleavages: Untangling the economically rooted group conflict framework

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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.

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Weathering intermediated temporary labour mobility: social partners in Central and Eastern Europe after EU enlargement

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This article highlights the growing significance of intermediated temporary labour mobility, and how it has put further pressure on industrial relations institutions in Central and Eastern Europe since EU enlargement.

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2023

Disability-relevance of quality assurance systems in social services

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The synthesis report, written for the European Commission by Magdi Birtha is building on evidence from 29 country reports on existing frameworks, definitions and assessment systems and procedures that are in place to measure the quality of social services used by persons with disabilities.

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2024

Scoping review on alternative purchasing arrangements

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This scoping review, which was commissioned by the World Health Organization (WHO) Kobe Center, provides a map of robust evidence about purchasing arrangements and their service delivery models that have been used to improve the quality of care for people with chronic diseases.

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2023

Survey manual of the survey on posting and receiving companies in the construction sector

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This survey manual is developed in the context of the INFO-POW project, which aims to assess the channels of information and their use in the posting of workers. The research team set up a 15-minute online survey targeted at construction companies.

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