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Comparative Report on Care Workers’ Job Quality and Inclusive Working Conditions

  • Mia Rönnmar

The comparative report, corresponding to WP2 of the ‘CARE4CARE - We care for those who care’ research project, examines job quality and inclusive working conditions for care workers in six EU Member States: France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, and Sweden. The comparative analysis focuses on labour law but also covers industrial relations, policy, and labour market characteristics, as well as the interplay between national and EU/international law. CARE4CARE targets care workers in the public and private care sector, and in formal and informal economies, who perform paid work and provide personal and/or health assistance to elderly persons, sick persons, or persons with disabilities, particularly those with at most a Bachelor’s degree. The report synthesises and compares findings from national reports authored by experts from each country.

  • Keywords:
  • Care Workers,
  • Job Quality,
  • Working conditions,
  • Labour Law,
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Mia Rönnmar

Malmö University, Sweden

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Chapter Information

Chapter Title

Comparative Report on Care Workers’ Job Quality and Inclusive Working Conditions

Authors

Mia Rönnmar

Language

English

DOI

10.36253/979-12-215-0864-2.03

Peer Reviewed

Publication Year

2025

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© 2025 Author(s)

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CC BY 4.0

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CC0 1.0

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Book Title

CARE4CARE - We Care for Those Who Care - Vol. I

Book Subtitle

Care Work and Working Conditions: National Legal Frameworks and Comparative Insights

Editors

Maria Luisa Vallauri, William Chiaromonte

Peer Reviewed

Number of Pages

520

Publication Year

2025

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© 2025 Author(s)

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CC BY 4.0

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Firenze University Press

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10.36253/979-12-215-0864-2

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979-12-215-0863-5

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979-12-215-0864-2

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Studi sul lavoro di cura - Studies on Care Work

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