Opening doors for immigrants. The importance of occupational and workplace-based cultural skills for successful labor market entry.

Autor/inn/en	Zisler, Chiara; Pregaldini, Damiano; Backes-Gellner, Uschi
Institution	Swiss Leading House
Titel	Opening doors for immigrants. The importance of occupational and workplace-based cultural skills for successful labor market entry. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Türen öffnen für Einwanderer: Die Bedeutung berufs- und arbeitsplatzbezogener kultureller Kompetenzen für einen erfolgreichen Einstieg in den Arbeitsmarkt.
Quelle	Zürich (2023), 38 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Working paper / Swiss Leading House. 204
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Bildungsertrag; Interkulturelle Kompetenz; Lernen; Assimilation (Soz); Ausbildung; Arbeitsplatz; Berufliche Integration; Beschäftigungsfähigkeit; Übergang Ausbildung - Beruf; Betriebliche Berufsausbildung; Schulische Berufsausbildung; Arbeitspapier; Kultureller Unterschied; Absolvent; Ausländer; Benachteiligter Jugendlicher; Jugendlicher; Schweiz
Abstract	"Young immigrants who often lack country-specific human capital face greater challenges in the transition from education to the labor market (e.g., lower employment probabilities, longer unemployment spells) than native adolescents. This paper analyzes the importance, for a successful transition, of occupational skills and workplace-based cultural skills that workers can acquire only at the work. We exploit the Swiss vocational education and training (VET) setting, in which students acquire occupational skills in one of two different types of vocational education programs: either dual programs with training in firms based on employment contracts and complemented by vocational schooling, or school-based programs without employment contracts. While well-defined curricula ensure identical occupational skills in both programs, the training of workplace-based cultural skills differs systematically. As young immigrants lack these essential workplace-related cultural skills compared to natives, we expect that additional workplace-based cultural skills training in dual VET improves immigrants' transition into the labor market and thereby their longer-term employment prospects. Using administrative data, we compare how both programs affect the labor market entry of immigrant groups with pronounced cultural disadvantages. To estimate causal effects on employment outcomes, we use differences in VET traditions across Swiss language regions as an instrument. Results show that completing dual VET leads to significantly reduced unemployment probabilities for young immigrants compared to natives in the first year after graduation, suggesting that beyond well-defined curricula for occupational skills, workplace-based cultural skills are crucial for immigrants' transitions from education into the labor market." The study refers to the period 2011-2020. (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2024/1