This paper shows empirical results of a qualitative study on educational processes, institutional handling and development of decision-making-processes of young unemployed people with discontinuous biographical lives and problems of transition from school to work in Germany. The empirical insights are based on collected data from document analysis, expert and biographical interviews. Young people under the age of 25 are currently highly affected by the lack of training places and unemployment. Their chances for an adequate apprenticeship and a subsequent satisfying employment of their own preferred choice seem to especially depend on their socio-economical status and social backgrounds. Inequality of participation in the labour market that is (re)produced in such way can be seen as an indicator for social justice and will be reconstructed here. In doing so, the case management process of young unemployed people in public agencies for employment promotion and its social and political (pre)conditions on the individual as well as on the institutional level will be crucial in this presentation. Within this context the qualitatively explored professional identities, the interpretation logics and operating logics of counsellors and case managers of public agencies for employment promotion will be described according to the consideration of basic capabilities.