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Overcoming barriers: Effects of entering vocational rehabilitation on labour market outcomes
Author(s) -
Nivorozhkin Anton
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international journal of social welfare
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.664
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1468-2397
pISSN - 1369-6866
DOI - 10.1111/ijsw.12367
Subject(s) - vocational education , rehabilitation , vocational rehabilitation , supported employment , service (business) , demographic economics , work (physics) , psychology , labour economics , business , medicine , physical therapy , economics , marketing , pedagogy , engineering , mechanical engineering
Vocational rehabilitation aims at getting people with health problems or disabilities back into work. In Germany, the Public Employment Service is a central provider of vocational rehabilitation services targeted at unemployed people. Against this background, the study examined the labour market effects of vocational rehabilitation for people registered as unemployed with the Public Employment Service. A comparison of the accepted and the rejected applicants for vocational rehabilitation using inverse probability weighting based on propensity scores provides an insight into its effects. The results suggest that the employment prospects of persons who were accepted in the programme improved modestly after the third‐year following application. A subgroup analysis identified stronger re‐employment effects of acceptance into vocational rehabilitation in eastern Germany as well as for men and older individuals.