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

ABSTRACT: 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 identifies the impact of being an immigrant on the clients' probability of reporting different kinds of offers like job referrals or courses, controlling for a number of other influential factors. The study also looks deeper into the effects of immigrant-specific attributes, such as heterogeneous German language skills. We found that the likelihood of offers by Jobcenters largely depends on the amount of time since immigration. Recent immigrants have

SUBMITTER: Lehwess-Litzmann R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9274638 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature