The report compares welfare attitudes in Russia and Europe. It covers public support for changes in social protection systems as well as in current social policies. The vulnerable groups include: the poor, the unemployed, the elderly, working parents, as well as migrants.
This report is a situation analysis of the decentralization of social services in Kosovo, which started in 2009 with the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between ministries and the individual municipalities.
This discussion paper scrutinises practices of EU Member States concerning risk profiling and outreach activities by building on an extensive literature review on tackling long-term unemployment.
This thematic discussion paper was written for the peer review on 'Germany’s latest reforms of the long-term care system' that took place on 11 and 12 January 2018 in Berlin.
Kai Leichsenring and Heidemarie Staflinger (Chamber of Labour Upper Austria) examined the opportunities and caveats to transfer the model of community nursing by autonomous teams to the Austrian realms of home care delivery.