Soziale Teilhabe durch geförderte Beschäftigung? Das Beispiel des Beschäftigungszuschusses

Andreas Hirseland, Philipp Ramos Lobato and Tobias Ritter

WSI-Mitteilungen, 2012, vol. 65, issue 2, 94-102

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2012
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