Publications

2024

Policy brief: Categorising tax and benefit family policies in the EU during the COVID-19 pandemic

This policy brief focuses on the categorisation of tax and benefit family policies introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic in five EU countries, based on data sourced from the Eurofound Policy Database and EUROMOD 2018-21 reports.

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Scoping review on alternative purchasing arrangements

This scoping review, which was commissioned by the World Health Organization (WHO) Kobe Center, provides a map of robust evidence about purchasing arrangements and their service delivery models that have been used to improve the quality of care for people with chronic diseases.

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Policy brief: Fragmentation of information on the posting of workers in Slovakia

The policy brief is based on research conducted in the INFO-POW project, which consisted of three methods of data collection: a mapping exercise, interviews with national stakeholders, and a survey.

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2023

Disability-relevance of quality assurance systems in social services

The synthesis report, written for the European Commission by Magdi Birtha is building on evidence from 29 country reports on existing frameworks, definitions and assessment systems and procedures that are in place to measure the quality of social services used by persons with disabilities. 

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Survey manual of the survey on posting and receiving companies in the construction sector

This survey manual is developed in the context of the INFO-POW project, which aims to assess the channels of information and their use in the posting of workers. The research team set up a 15-minute online survey targeted at construction companies.

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