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Jobcenters’ strategies to promoting the inclusion of immigrant and native job seekers: a comparative analysis based on PASS survey data

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  • Lehwess-Litzmann, René

    (Soziologisches Forschungsinstitut Göttingen (SOFI) e.V., an der Georg-August-Universität)

  • Söhn, Janina

    (Soziologisches Forschungsinstitut Göttingen (SOFI) e.V., an der Georg-August-Universität)

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"This paper comparatively analyzes strategies of German Jobcenters to bring native and immigrant job seekers into employment. It focuses on clients who receive means-tested basic income for the unemployed, based on data from the Panel Study Labour Market and Social Security (PASS) from year 2015 to 2020. By way of logistic regression, the study identifes the impact of being an immigrant on the clients’ probability of reporting diferent kinds of ofers like job referrals or courses, controlling for a number of other infuential factors. The study also looks deeper into the efects of immigrant-specifc attributes, such as heterogeneous German language skills. We found that the likelihood of ofers by Jobcenters largely depends on the amount of time since immigration. Recent immigrants have the lowest chance of reporting most of the studied measures of active labor market policies. For immigrants having stayed more than 4 years in Germany, however, we do not fnd a disadvantage, and some measures out of Jobcenters’ toolbox are even more often ofered to the longer-settled immigrants than to native clients. A possible explanation for the moderately under-average support of recent immigrants in terms of Jobcenters’ measures could be an institutional focus on improving German language skills prior to approaching the labor market." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Springer) ((en))

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  • Lehwess-Litzmann, René & Söhn, Janina, 2022. "Jobcenters’ strategies to promoting the inclusion of immigrant and native job seekers: a comparative analysis based on PASS survey data," Journal for Labour Market Research, Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany], vol. 56, pages 1-9.
    • Handle: RePEc:iab:iabjlr:v:56:p:art.09
    DOI: 10.1186/s12651-022-00313-8
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    Keywords

    Bundesrepublik Deutschland ; Aufenthaltsdauer ; ausländische Arbeitnehmer ; berufliche Integration ; Berufsberatung ; Case Management ; Determinanten ; Einwanderer ; Inländer ; Jobcenter ; Praktikum ; Sprachförderung ; Arbeitsgelegenheit ; Teilnehmerauswahl ; Trainingsmaßnahme ; Arbeitslosengeld II-Empfänger ; arbeitsmarktpolitische Maßnahme ; Weiterbildungsförderung ; Arbeitsuchende ; Arbeitsvermittlung ; IAB-Haushaltspanel ; 2015-2020;
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    JEL classification:

    • H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
    • I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
    • J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
    • J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
    • J68 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Public Policy
    • J08 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - General - - - Labor Economics Policies

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