Publications

2022

Conference report: European Day of Persons with Disabilities 2021

The conference to celebrate the 2021 European Day of Persons with Disabilities brought together more than 400 politicians, high-level experts and disability advocates.

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

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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Gender differences in access to community-based care: a longitudinal analysis of widowhood and living arrangements

This article investigates how widowhood and living arrangement transitions are associated with the use of home and community-based long-term care among older European women and men with care needs.

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Care Task Division in Familialistic Care Regimes: A Comparative Analysis of Gender and Socio-Economic Inequalities in Austria and Slovenia

This article focuses on how the distribution of care tasks between formal and informal carers has a significant impact on the well-being of carers and on how efficiently care is delivered to users. It explores how task division in care for older people differs between two neighboring countries with different forms of familialism: Slovenia (prescribed familialism) and Austria (supported familialism).

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(In)Secure Mobility: Posted workers’ acquiescence, social insurance, and economic rationality

The final report of the SMUG project focuses on the relationship of posted workers with social insurance institutions. 

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