A new article co-authored by CELSI researchers Pavol Bors and Marta Kahancová, together with former CELSI colleague Barbora Holubová, has been published in the European Journal of Industrial Relations.

A new article co-authored by CELSI researchers Pavol Bors and Marta Kahancová, together with former CELSI colleague Barbora Holubová, has been published in the European Journal of Industrial Relations - the principal English-language forum for analysis of key developments in European industrial relations.

The care sector faces a persistent dilemma: how to balance decent working conditions, constrained public budgets, and broad service coverage.

In Hungary and Slovakia, chronic underinvestment, poor job quality and workforce shortages define what the authors call a "low-road" trajectory.

The key finding: in the absence of effective national coordination, it is local actors, often operating outside formal bargaining structures, who drive mitigation strategies, offering important insights into potential pathways for reform.

The article, titled "Confronting the Low Road in the Care Sector: Local Strategies for Addressing the Care Trilemma in Hungary and Slovakia", draws on research conducted within the EU-funded SOWELL project (2020–2022), in which CELSI covered Slovakia and Hungary.

🔗 The article is available in the European Journal of Industrial Relations: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/09596801261454471

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