Publications by Type: Other publications

2024

Live-in migrant care in Europe – The case of Austria

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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.

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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

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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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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Comparative report of the survey on posting and receiving companies in the construction sector

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The comparative study presents findings from original empirical research collected through an online survey about the access to information of posting and receiving companies regarding the posting of workers. The survey manual details the process of preparing and implementing the survey.

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