This paper analyses the effect of COVID-19 on household income, the at-risk-of-poverty (AROP) rate for children in Austria, and the buffering effect of the Austrian tax-benefit system.

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.

This Thematic Review aims to identify policy frameworks and effective incentives available in the 27 EU Member States (MS) to activate and integrate persons with disabilities (PwDs) into the labour market and keep them in employment. 

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.

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.