Labour market
Very few long-term unemployed find new Job
After a year without a new Job to the long-term unemployed. Then, one finds in Germany, hardly a place, in spite of the good economy. And a Single can quickly get into the poverty trap.
Job-seekers in front of a Jobcenter and the Federal employment Agency in Duisburg
Only 13 percent of the long-term unemployed, which ended in the past year, their unemployment, have actually found a job on the first labour market. This number quoted in the Newspapers of the Funke media group from a response by the Federal Agency, on a request of the left party. The majority of these long-term unemployed was simply the statistics are deleted.
After that, 54 percent switched in the past year, those long-term unemployed, were no longer recorded as unemployed, officially, in the non-employment: 36 percent were classified as incapable of work, eleven per cent were cancelled due to lack of availability or involvement, were added to the special rules about early retirement.
The cited information from the Federal Agency, according to the long-term unemployment for years, in spite of the upswing on a high level: Since 2011, the number of unemployed that are at least a year without employment have declined only 2.7 percent. remains You spent at 1.04 million.
“Lack of success and inaction”
The unemployed are Queuing at the job centre Gelsenkirchen
The request of the Federal Agency had asked the Deputy group leader of the Left in the Bundestag, Sabine Zimmermann,. Zimmermann said the spark-Newspapers, the Numbers, the lack of success and inaction of the Federal government, occupied “”. Zimmermann called for a u-turn in labour market policy, to do more for the long-term unemployed: “It must be of sufficient funds for training and good publicly funded employment.”
In addition, it must be considered obligations for employers. You should not take into account how far from the prejudices of Long-term unemployment when Vacancies occur. The labour market expert warned that a concentration of the policy only on the easier-to-place unemployed, leave the Rest to its fate, was “more than anti-social”.
Five times higher risk of poverty
Meanwhile, published by the Bertelsmann Foundation, a study according to which nearly a Million children are living alone in Germany, the Hartz IV benefits. Them to live in poverty than their peers who grow up with both parents threatens to more often. Every second child in the Hartz-IV-reference part of living in a family with only one parent; single-parent families are related to these benefits, five times more likely than couple households with minor children.
One reason is that half of lone parents can’t get a maintenance for their children, it said. A further 25 per cent of the relevant payments of the Ex-partner received only irregularly or below the minimum claim. Therefore, the poverty risk of single parents, even after very high.
A third of lone parents refers to Hartz IV
In the last ten years have worsened the Situation, moreover, the authors of the study. In 2014, 42 percent of the Concerned, in relation to the information, according to an income that was less than 60 per cent of median income. They were seen as at risk of poverty. Compared to 2005 this share increased by 6.6 percentage points. In the case of couple families, the poverty risk decreased in the same period by 11.7 percentage points.
According to the study, 2.3 million children are growing up in single-parent families, 89 per cent of the mother. 37.6% of lone parents relate Hartz IV; as a result, this power also goes to 970.000 children.
The experts of the Bertelsmann Foundation, are calling for “targeted measures” to the affected children more “education and opportunities”. They argue, among other things, to improve the enforcement of maintenance claims of children and the maintenance and social law to the needs of single parents to adapt.
stu/rb (afp, dpa, kna)