Publications

2025

Access to Information on Labor and Social Regulations and Compliance in the Posting of Foreign Workers in Construction in Austria

In this article, the authors examine information provision, access to rules on posting, and rule compliance by companies from the perspective of information providers and users in Austria.

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The buffering effect of the Austrian tax- benefit system on child poverty during the COVID-19 pandemic

This paper analyses the effect of COVID-19 on household income, the at-risk-of-poverty (AROP) rate for children in Austria, and the buffering effect of the Austrian tax-benefit system.

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Internationale Modelle und Erfahrungen ressourcenorientierter Langzeitpflege

The Austrian Committee of Social Work (Österreichisches Komitee für Soziale Arbeit) published the summaries of key-notes presented at their annual meeting on 7 November 2024 in Klagenfurt, focusing on ”Care as a scarce asset”. Kai Leichsenring contributed with considerations on resource-oriented long-term care in an international context.

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Emerging Long-Term Care Systems: Learning from Comparison

Kai Leichsenring together with Cassandra Simmons and Johanna Fischer contributed the Chapter Emerging Long-Term Care Systems: Learning from Comparison to a comparative analysis of health and social care policy and practice from around the world, edited by Julia Morgan and Vincent La Placa, University of Greenwich.

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