The employment subsidy : quantitative and qualitative analyses of the employment histories and biographies of recipients of the employment subsidy in NRW

Abstract

"The employment subsidy according to Section 16e of the Social Code (SGB II), introduced in 2007, was intended to promote unemployed persons who were especially distanced from the labour market or were difficult to place. Up to the present time there is little verified empirical information about the long-term unemployed, especially on how exclusion processes that lead to such a problematical situation come about. In order to fill this gap, the dissertation by Philipp Fuchs is based on both quantitative analyses of the employment histories and biographical interviews with those supported. The study sheds light on the problematical situations within this group of 'losers of modernization' and indicates to what extent the employment subsidy can help solve the problem. It analyses the significance of gainful employment for those concerned, as well as the obstacles that oppose integration into such gainful employment. The author rates the employment subsidy as an important support benefit of the social state and is critical of the fact that the option of open-ended support was abolished once more in 2011: for some of those concerned, it had contributed in a vital way to individual welfare - and this could hardly have been achieved by any other form of support." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Fuchs, P. (2013): Der Beschäftigungszuschuss. Quantitative und qualitative Analysen der Erwerbsverläufe von Geförderten in NRW. (IAB-Bibliothek 345), Bielefeld: Bertelsmann, 330 p. DOI:10.3278/300825w