Publications by Type: Policy brief

2022

Policy brief: Attitudes, experiences and expectations on long-term care in Malta

Policy brief

In this policy brief, the authors discuss findings from the InCARE survey on attitudes, experiences and expectations on long-term care in Malta. They find that that there is a mismatch between preferences and expectations for receiving care in the community, aggravated by affordability and availability barriers.

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Policy brief: Posting, short term labour migration, and social rights access: How to rework an alienating system?

Policy brief

In this brief, we discuss how posted and other hypermobile migrant construction workers suffer from marginalization in both the labour market and in access to social insurance, with variations between biographically different groups of posted workers.

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Policy brief: Being posted without being a posted worker - Legal uncertainty in practice

Policy brief

Drawing on interviews from the SMUG project, this policy brief argues that many posted workers do not conform to the directive’s definition of a posted worker. Workers are often hired for posting, have genuine posting careers or move across categories to find job opportunities.

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Policy brief: The importance of timely data sharing practices in enforcing labour standards for posted construction workers in Italy

Policy brief

This policy brief shows how timely sharing of collected data could effectively support and better guarantee the enactment of labour standards in the sector of posted construction workers.

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Policy brief: An index to measure child poverty in European cities: City of Vienna case study

Policy brief

This policy brief aims to present an EU-SILC based index designed to capture multidimensional child poverty in European cities and discusses the results for Vienna.

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