Low-wage jobs: a means for employment integration of the unemployed; evidence from administrative data in Germany and Austria

"Does the low wage sector serve as a stepping stone towards integration into betterpaid jobs or at least towards integration of jobless people into employment? There is evidence for a "low-wage trap" and for a high risk of low-wage earners to get unemployed, but this may also be due to sorting effects and not to low-wage work itself. We want to contribute to this debate and analyse employment spel…