Unemployment benefits for needy job-seekers according SGB II: Long-term benefit receipt is not the same as long-term unemployment

Abstract

"The total number of long-term unemployed workers (registered as unemployed for one year or longer) remained at a level of about 1 million during recent years, despite rising employment figures. 4.4 million persons capable to work received unemployment benefits type II for needy job-seekers in 2014, a share of 70 percent for a minimum of 21 months out of the last 24 months. In this article we analyse the relationship between long-term unemployment and long-term receipt of unemployment benefit type II in Germany. We demonstrate that only a quarter of recipients of unemployment benefit type II is long-term unemployed. The larger share of benefit recipients is unemployed less than 1 year, is employed or is not available for work due to caring responsibilities." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Bruckmeier, K., Lietzmann, T., Rothe, T. & Saile, A. (2015): Grundsicherung für Arbeitsuchende nach SGB II: Langer Leistungsbezug ist nicht gleich Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit. (IAB-Kurzbericht 20/2015), Nürnberg, 8 p.