Active Labour Market Policies and Social Integration in Germany: Do ‘One-Euro-Jobs’ Improve Individuals’ Sense of Social Integration?

Gundert, Stefanie; Hohendanner, Christian

doi:10.1093/esr/jcv076

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“…Knabe et al, 2017) and social belonging (see e.g. Gundert and Hohendanner, 2015), our estimated effect sizes for wave 1 are larger. Moreover, our positive estimate for mental health contrasts Huber et al (2011), who find that program participation may even moderately increase the prevalence of mental symptoms and sleeplessness among welfare recipients.…”

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confidence: 57%

“…Using fixed effects regressions, Wulfgramm (2011) provides only weak evidence that One-Euro-Jobs can partially counteract the negative effects of unemployment on life satisfaction. Gundert and Hohendanner (2015) find that this program does not generally improve social belonging. Huber et al (2011) estimate slightly negative effects of welfare-to-work programs on mental health in Germany, while Korpi (1997) finds positive effects for Swedish youths in the 1980s.…”

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confidence: 72%

“…The PASS covers 21,000 individuals from low-income households in Germany, seeTrappmann et al (2010). The same measure of social belonging is used byGundert and Hohendanner (2014;2015) Pohlan (2019). analyzes the effects of unemployment on the same four outcomes.…”

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Do Job Creation Schemes Improve the Social Integration and Well-Being of the Long-Term Unemployed?

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In this paper we analyze the effects of a German job creation scheme (JCS) on the social integration and well-being of long-term unemployed individuals. Using linked survey and administrative data for participants and a group of matched non-participants, we find significant positive effects of being employed within this program. They are larger for individuals with health impairments and above-average duration of welfare dependence. The program effects decline over time, which cannot be explained by decreasing levels of well-being and social integration of the participants. Instead, this decrease is driven by a rising share of controls who find a job and catch up to similar outcome levels as program participants. Overall, our results suggest that JCSs can be an efficient labor market policy instrument to improve the quality of life of the long-term unemployed.

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“…In this respect, it is encouraging that almost half of all participants assessed that the tasks they performed resembled a regular job (DGB, ) and that half of all establishments considered participants to be capable of fulfilling the jobs of their regular workers (Müller & Rebien, ). By itself, this result is desirable for the social integration of participants (Gundert & Hohendanner, ). However, proximity to regular work increases the risk of substitution effects.…”

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“…Some €1-jobs include training elements. In practice, €1-jobs also help to combat social exclusion (Gundert & Hohendanner, 2015). However, €1-jobs have also been used as a willingness-to-work test and to some extent to prevent illegal employment.…”

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Employment effects of a German workfare programme at the establishment level

Dummert

Hohendanner

2019

Int J Soc Welfare

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We examined the impact of a German workfare programme for hard‐to‐place welfare recipients, the so‐called ‘€1‐jobs’, on staff in public and non‐profit establishments. We applied static and dynamic panel models using IAB Establishment Panel data from 2005 to 2013. To account for regional influences, we linked the establishment data to indicators at the district level. We identified a positive complementary effect on high‐skilled workers and a negative substitution effect on low‐skilled workers. We interpreted these findings as follows: In that €1‐jobs require highly skilled staff for management, instruction, qualification and support, this indicates that the programme generates jobs for skilled workers within the welfare‐to‐work industry. The negative effect that we found for low‐skilled workers suggests substitution effects between the programme participants and regular low‐skilled workers; although in this study, both effects were relatively small.

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The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Life Satisfaction: Does Social Belonging Matter as a Mechanism and are There Differences by Age?

Handschuh,

Kroh,

Nester

2024

J Happiness Stud

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The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on life satisfaction has been a topic of worldwide research, mostly indicating a drop in individual’s life satisfaction with some differences between subgroups. However, literature on related mechanisms is scarce. This study examines whether the sense of social belonging is a mechanism that explains pandemic-related changes in life satisfaction across different age groups. Using a rich longitudinal data set of the adult cohort of the German National Educational Panel Study and employing fixed effects panel regression models, we show that the COVID-19 pandemic is, on average, negatively associated with individual life satisfaction and social belonging. Yet, mediation and sensitivity analysis questions the general importance of social belonging as a relevant mechanism irrespective of individuals’ age. The results also suggest that the negative effects of the pandemic on social belonging were indeed significant for individuals with average or high pre-pandemic social belonging, while individuals with low pre-pandemic social belonging experienced an increase in their sense of social belonging. This leads to an expanded discussion of which groups of people are most affected by the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and what other mechanisms can be hypothesized to explain this negative impact on people's life satisfaction.

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Active Labour Market Policies and Social Integration in Germany: Do ‘One-Euro-Jobs’ Improve Individuals’ Sense of Social Integration?

Cited by 40 publications

References 26 publications

Do Job Creation Schemes Improve the Social Integration and Well-Being of the Long-Term Unemployed?

Do Job Creation Schemes Improve the Social Integration and Well-Being of the Long-Term Unemployed?

Employment effects of a German workfare programme at the establishment level

The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Life Satisfaction: Does Social Belonging Matter as a Mechanism and are There Differences by Age?

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