Im Kontext steigender Versorgungsbedarfe, eines grassierenden Fachkräftemangels und einer Krise sozialer Reproduktion kommt es seit den 1990er Jahren zu einem sozial- und pflegepolitischen Ausbau niedrigschwelliger und informeller Pflegearbeit in den Grauzonen des Pflegemarktes in Deutschland....

Having had little time to absorb the economic and social shock of the COVID-19 pandemic, the European Union is confronted with staggering increases in the cost of living. While household burdens vary significantly across and within countries, most European countries are struggling to cushion the...

Although a public long-term care (LTC) program is a potentially important factor for the labor supply of female informal caregivers, there are only a handful of individual-level studies on this topic and the macro-level impacts of LTC programs are still largely unknown. Exploiting the...