Publications

2023

Policy brief: Enhancing social inclusion of persons with disabilities in the Western Balkans

In this policy brief, we explore challenges and barriers persons with disabilities (PwD) face to full social inclusion and propose policy options to address them through investment in and better access to (vocational) education, public funding of personal assistance, and improved data collection for evidence-based policy making.

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Policy brief: The role of national human rights bodies in monitoring fundamental rights in EU funded programmes

Policy brief

This policy brief focuses on the role of National Human Rights Bodies in assessing the horizontal enabling conditions in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (the Charter) and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) compliance of EU funds.

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Policy Review Report: Monitoring and evaluation of social protection programmes

European Centre reports

This report summarises insights gained during the policy review and aims at further sharing these with a wider audience.

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Systems in transition: Responding to changing attitudes, expectations and preferences on LTC in the Balkans

Research note

In this research note, we present the results of the InCARE survey on attitudes, experiences and expectations on long-term care (LTC) for selected Balkan countries (Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia and the Republic of Moldova), the first data of this type collected for these countries.

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Working Paper: Trade Union Power and Welfare Equality between Foreign and Native Workers in Advanced Democracies

Other publications

This working paper uses longitudinal data from 1960 to 2010 from 19 developed democracies to evaluate the relationship between the changing dynamics of two different trade union power resources characteristics, i.e., associational and institutional powers, and the extent to which they relate to the socio-economic rights policy for foreign workers.

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