Temporary Extra Jobs for Immigrants:

Merging Lane to Employment or Dead-End Road in Welfare?

authored by

Stephan L. Thomsen, Thomas Walter

Abstract

Temporary Extra Jobs provide subsidized employment for welfare recipients and are the most frequently used welfare-to-work program in Germany. We evaluate the effects of participation in this program on the employment chances of immigrant welfare recipients and contrast the findings with program effects for natives. Our results reveal that Temporary Extra Jobs fail to achieve their objective. The estimated effects are more adverse for natives, but the program is ineffective for participating immigrants either. Therefore, the program is a dead-end road rather than a merging lane to regular employment both for natives and for immigrants.

External Organisation(s)

Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW)

Type

Article

Journal

Labour : review of labour economics and industrial relations

Volume

24

Pages

114-140

No. of pages

27

ISSN

1121-7081

Publication date

24.11.2010

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Demography, Geography, Planning and Development

Electronic version(s)

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9914.2010.00505.x (Access: Closed)
https://ub-madoc.bib.uni-mannheim.de/2934/1/dp10027.pdf (Access: Open)