The Gender Gap in Job Quality of Subsidized Workers

Abstract

"A common measure of active labour market policy for jobseekers who are difficult to place is wage-subsidized employment. They aim to improve competitiveness of subsidized workers and to reintegrate them into working life. The job quality experienced by subsidized workers are decisive for their employment stability. Participants in the new measures “Integration of Long-Term Unemployed People” (Article 16e Social Code II) and “Participation in the Labour Market” (Article 16i Social Code II) experience and report jobs of quite high job quality. Gender differences occur occasionally, but are more pronounced once emerged. Women are more often employed part-time and men more often full-time. Merely 15 to 30 percent of the gender gap in working time can be explained by differences in characteristics. Moreover, women are more likely to experience more work-to-life conflicts. However, gender differences in characteristics dampen the gap in reconciliation conflicts." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Duncker & Humblot) ((en))

Cite article

Coban, M. (2023): Arbeits- und Beschäftigungsqualität geförderter Beschäftigung im Geschlechtervergleich. In: Sozialer Fortschritt, Vol. 72, No. 9-10, p. 747-768. DOI:10.3790/sfo.72.9-10.747