Bilingual caseworkers and on-the-job training: A pathway to integration?

Lillit Ottosson () and Ulrika Vikman ()
Additional contact information
Lillit Ottosson: Stockholm University, Uppsala Center for Labor Studies (UCLS) and UIL, Uppsala University; IFAU
Ulrika Vikman: IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy

No 2025:9, Working Paper Series from IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy

Abstract: We study an active labor market program aimed at immigrants with very limited language skills. The program consists of a three-month on-the-job training program in a regular workplace, facilitated by bilingual caseworkers speaking the participant’s native language. The aim of the program is to improve participants’ language skills and to provide labor market experience. We apply dynamic inverse probability weighting to account for dynamic selection into the program. After an initial lock-in effect, we find that the program leads to sizable increases in employment throughout the three-year follow-up period. These effects are explained by both subsidized and regular employment, and are mainly driven by women.

Keywords: Immigrants; Integration; On-the-job training; Language support (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H75 I38 J15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 57 pages
Date: 2025-06-16
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur, nep-lab and nep-mig
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.ifau.se/globalassets/pdf/se/2025/wp-20 ... y-to-integration.pdf Full text (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hhs:ifauwp:2025_009

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Paper Series from IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy IFAU, P O Box 513, SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Ali Ghooloo ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).