Erfahrungen von Dienstleitungspools und Vermittlungsagenturen

Services to private households are often regarded as having a great deal of employment potentialin Germany. Even in the discussion on more employment through promoting low wagejobs these services are one of the focuses. Up to now, however, there are only few regularjobs in this field and their expansion seems to be very difficult. In the last few years numerousservicepools and placement agencies have been founded all over Germany (mostly with publicfunds) in order to create additional jobs in services to private house-holds. But there hasbeen no systematical analysis of their structure and experiences up to now. With our writtensurvey of projects and companies in this field we have tried to close this gap. The survey hasfocused on the mode of operation, the current results and experiences of service pools andplacement agencies which offer services to private households. In this report we present theresults of the survey and discuss them within the context of the current political debates.Services to private households are often regarded as having a great deal of employment potentialin Germany. Even in the discussion on more employment through promoting low wagejobs these services are one of the focuses. Up to now, however, there are only few regularjobs in this field and their expansion seems to be very difficult. In the last few years numerousservicepools and placement agencies have been founded all over Germany (mostly with publicfunds) in order to create additional jobs in services to private house-holds. But there hasbeen no systematical analysis of their structure and experiences up to now. With our writtensurvey of projects and companies in this field we have tried to close this gap. The survey hasfocused on the mode of operation, the current results and experiences of service pools andplacement agencies which offer services to private households. In this report we present theresults of the survey and discuss them within the context of the current political debates. [Susanne Bittner, Simone Strauf, Cla