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Hammer, E.

Welfare state policy and informal long-term care giving in Austria: Old gender divisions and new stratification processes among women

In Austria, the provision of long-term care is strongly based on unpaid female work within family networks and is characterised by a highly unequal division of informal long-term care-giving. In 1993, a major reform has been introduced in the Austrian long-term care system with a payments for care programme and a state–provinces treaty regarding service development at its heart.

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