Beschreibung

"The German job creation programme for unemployed welfare benefit recipients, known as One-Euro-Jobs (OEJs) can be both a “first step” and a “last resort”. Addressing the hardest-to-place unemployed, they are not intended to qualify participants for regular employment, but merely to enable some work-related activity to increase their employability and to stabilize participants’ life situation. Self-sufficient employment is at best a long-term goal. In this context, they are a “first step” as they may trigger subsequent participation in higher-aiming active labour market policy (ALMP) measures, which in turn may support the unemployed in their labour market integration. Their “last resort” nature evolves from the fact that OEJs are strictly subordinate to regular job placement and other ALMP measures. The article re-evaluates OEJs after a major reform in 2012 and tries to disentangle possible channels influencing OEJs’ efficacy." (Text excerpt, IAB-Doku) ((en))