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Soziale Teilhabe durch geförderte Beschäftigung? Das Beispiel des Beschäftigungszuschusses

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  • Hirseland, Andreas
  • Lobato, Philipp Ramos
  • Ritter, Tobias

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In 2007, the German government implemented a new incentive for employers to hire long-term unemployed welfare recipients with particularly poor labour market prospects. It allows an open-ended wage subsidy up to 75 per cent of labour costs and aims at fostering sustainable social integration of the target group. Based on qualitative interviews with welfare recipients supported by this instrument, there is evidence that subsidized employment can be a means to improve social integration of long-term unemployed. Decisive factors in this respect are changes in the institutional as well as in the perceived social status of the beneficiaries. Becoming relatively independent from social assistance seems to be a key factor since limitations in the enhancement of perceived social integration are reported by those persons who are still partly depending on welfare. The conclusion is that subsidized employment strengthens social participation in principle. However, structural conditions like duration of the subsidy and monetary pay-offs seem to be of crucial importance.

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  • Hirseland, Andreas & Lobato, Philipp Ramos & Ritter, Tobias, 2012. "Soziale Teilhabe durch geförderte Beschäftigung? Das Beispiel des Beschäftigungszuschusses," WSI-Mitteilungen, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, vol. 65(2), pages 94-102.
    • Handle: RePEc:nms:wsimit:10.5771/0342-300x-2012-2-94
    DOI: 10.5771/0342-300X-2012-2-94
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    1. Nivorozhkin, Anton & Promberger, Markus, 2020. "Employment Subsidies for Long-Term Welfare Benefits Recipients: Reconciling Programmes Goals with Needs of Diverging Population Groups," IAB-Discussion Paper 202027, Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany].
    2. Bonin Holger, 2018. "Tragfähiger sozialer Arbeitsmarkt – Solidarisches Grundeinkommen für alle oder Teilhabeförderung für wenige?," Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik, De Gruyter, vol. 67(2), pages 164-173, August.

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