Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics
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IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy
No 2025:9: Bilingual caseworkers and on-the-job training: A pathway to integration?
Lillit Ottosson () and Ulrika Vikman ()
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Lillit Ottosson: Stockholm University, Uppsala Center for Labor Studies (UCLS) and UIL, Uppsala University; IFAU
Ulrika Vikman: IFAU - Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy
Abstract: We study an active labor market program aimed at immigrants with very limited language skills. The program consists of a three-month on-the-job training program in a regular workplace, facilitated by bilingual caseworkers speaking the participant’s native language. The aim of the program is to improve participants’ language skills and to provide labor market experience. We apply dynamic inverse probability weighting to account for dynamic selection into the program. After an initial lock-in effect, we find that the program leads to sizable increases in employment throughout the three-year follow-up period. These effects are explained by both subsidized and regular employment, and are mainly driven by women.
Keywords: Immigrants; Integration; On-the-job training; Language support
Language: English
57 pages, June 16, 2025
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