Unemployment insurance benefits for permanent residents
| Quick info | |
|---|---|
| Data type | Numeric |
| Scale | Metric |
| Value labels | Not applicable |
| Technical name | isr_permmig_uneins_access_s |
| Category | Immigrant social rights |
| Label | Unemployment insurance benefits |
| Related indicators | |
Measures if in the years of data collection, migrant workers who held a permanent residence permit did have a legal claim to contribution-based unemployment insurance benefits
Contents
Coding rules
Survey Question
q2b: In the years [YYYY-YYYY], did migrant workers who held a permanent residence permit have a legal claim to contribution-based unemployment insurance benefits?
Specification of scores
| Value | Specification |
|---|---|
| 0 | No access to contributory benefits OR status of permanent resident does not exist |
| 0.5 | Longer contribution period/ additional requirements |
| 1 | Same contribution period as citizens |
Missing values
Depending on the cause of the absence of a value, several types of missing values can be differentiated. These are as follows:
- -991 Don’t know
- -992 Former communist countries
- -993 Benefit did not exist (including for citizens)
- -994 Legal category of migrants did not exist
- -995 Neither benefit nor legal category of migrants existed
- -996 Country not in sample for other country-specific reason
- -997 Index is missing because all underlying variables are also missing
- -998 Missing for other reasons
- -999 Country not in sample in 1980-1999
Filter logic
If a type of benefit does not exist:
- in those years in which a certain benefit does not exist, all items pertaining to that benefit are set to missing (-993).
If a legal category of migrant does not exist:
- in those years in which there is no legally recognized category of ‘permanent resident’, this is scored as most restrictive (0). This concerns q1b, q2b, q3b_parent, q3b_child, q4b_residence, q4b_other, q5b and q7b.
- in those years in which there is no legally recognized category of ‘recognized refugee’, this is scored as most restrictive (0). This concerns q1d, q3d_parent, q3d_child, q4d_residence and q4d_other.
- in those years in which there is no legally recognized category of ‘asylum seeker’, this is scored as most restrictive (0). This concerns q1e, q3e_parent, q3e_child, q4e and q6.
- in those years in which there is no legally recognized category of ‘family reunification migrant’ with a citizen sponsor, this is scored as most restrictive (0). This concerns q8a_welfare and q8a_income.
- in those years in which there is no legally recognized category of ‘family reunification migrant’ with a non-citizen sponsor, this is scored as most restrictive (0). This concerns q1f, q8b_welfare and q8b_income.
Exception: In q1[…], q2[…], q3[…], q4[…] and q5[…], if the respective category does not exist and the benefit in question also does not exist, this is scored as missing (-995 [Neither benefit nor legal category of migrants existed]).
For temporary and seasonal labour migrants, if there is no such legally recognized category, this is scored as missing (-994 if the benefit exists, -995 if it does not).
Further information
For comprehensive information on the data collection procedures, coding scheme, questionnaire design, filter logic, and related aspects, please consult the Technical Report: 10.26092/elib/3739
Bibliographic info
Citation: Henninger, J., Junge, M., Römer, F., Bartsch, S. (2025). The Immigrant Social Rights Data Set (ImmigSR). Technical Report (2., aktualisierte Ausgabe, Stand: 04.03.2025), SFB 1342 Technical Paper Series/18/2025, Bremen: CRC 1342, 10.26092/elib/3739
Related publications: Römer, F., Henninger, J., & Harris, E. (2024). Social protection for mobile populations? A global perspective on immigrant social rights. Social Policy & Administration, 58(1), 155–174. 10.1111/spol.12955
Misc
Project manager(s): Dr. Friederike Römer
Data release: 01.06.2025
Revisions:
Sources
Original CRC Data
