Publications

2022

The posting of workers in Austria. Working conditions, rule enforcement, and the fight against social dumping

This chapter is a contribution to the book "Posted Workers. La condizione dei lavoratori in distacco transnazionale in Europa" and it focuses on posting in Austria by giving an overview of the posting trends, the governance system, and the main challenges in the Austrian context, specifically wage and social dumping, OSH, and rule enforcement, before providing a few concluding remarks.

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Posted Workers in the European Union: Facts and Figures

The comparative report of the Posting.STAT project discusses definitions, data collection and analysis, followed by comparative findings on the scale, characteristics and impact of intra-EU posting, the impact of intra-EU posting on the economic actors involved, scale and characteristics of infringements related to intra-EU posting, and provides conclusions and recommendations on the importance of statistics in evidence based policymaking. 

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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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