Eurofound published a report which looks at labour shortages in the EU and classifies the types of measures being taken to address those shortages. Amongst other things, the report found that the pandemic aggravated shortages in the health and care sectors, and that all European countries reported an insufficient supply of nurses, general practitioners and long-term care workers. The new research aims to identify practices tackling shortages in these specific sectors and extract lessons on what does and does not work in different contexts.
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