The role of discrimination for the labour market integration of young people with a migration background (ARBEIT)

Project team

Principal investigators: Prof. Dr Herbert Brücker, Prof. Dr Frank Kalter and Prof. Dr Ruud Koopmans

Project team members: Dr. Max Schaub (WZB), Dr. Daniel Auer (WZB), Ruta Yemane (WZB), Lara Aithal (WZB)

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Project description:

The aim of the sub-project ARBEIT was to explore the causes of labour market disadvantages of persons with a migration background and the relative influence of discrimination and other impact factors (e.g. educational differences).

In a first step, the current state of research was to be processed, for which results from population surveys and analyses of official statistics as well as experimental studies were taken into account.

These findings were compiled and systematically related to each other in order to identify existing research gaps. Insofar as such gaps could be closed with further analyses of already existing data sets, these were carried out in a second step and desiderata for subsequent research were formulated.

Participating partners: Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), WZB Berlin Social Science Center