Plädoyer für ein Investitionsprogramm gegen Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit

Alexander Spermann

Wirtschaftsdienst, 2015, vol. 95, issue 4, 255-261

Abstract: The number of long-term unemployed people in Germany has stagnated at around one million for many years. Despite excellent labour market conditions, the long-term unemployment rate is well above the OECD national average. The principle of “encourage and challenge”, which was implemented in 2005 along with the Hartz IV reform, is in clear need of further development. What needs to be done to actually help the long-term unemployed? The author proposes a five-pillar concept for preventing and reducing long-term unemployment and long-term receipt of benefits. An activation strategy for the long-term unemployed and long-term benefit recipients requires more and better trained case managers in the job centres as well as social integration services (debt, addiction and psychosocial counselling) that are available nationwide. Copyright ZBW and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015

Keywords: J24; J31; J38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1007/s10273-015-1815-x (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

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:spr:wirtsc:v:95:y:2015:i:4:p:255-261

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.springer. ... policy/journal/10273

DOI: 10.1007/s10273-015-1815-x

Access Statistics for this article

Wirtschaftsdienst is currently edited by Christian Breuer

More articles in Wirtschaftsdienst from Springer, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().