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Preventing a Scarring Start into the Labor Market: Integration Strategies for Young Persons with Disabilities

Authors: Nancy Reims, Angela Rauch, Ulrich Thomsen

Published in: Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation | Issue 4/2023

Abstract

Purpose

Sociodemographic and structural conditions have consequences for the labor market participation of young persons with disabilities (YPWD) in vocational rehabilitation (VR). As the type of program determines the labor market chances, we analyze the processes of selecting active labor market programs (ALMP) in VR. Which factors determine the allocation to (1) programs in general and (2) moreover, the allocation to specific programs?

Materials and methods

We conduct logistic (1) and multinomial regression (2) using register data of the German Federal Employment Agency. Besides variables on the micro level, we control for a wide range of structural and organizational influences. The sample comprises VR and employment biographies of 255,009 YPWD accepted to VR between 2010 and 2015. Program participation is restricted to start 180 days after VR acceptance.

Results

Sociodemographic factors, like age and the status before entering VR as well as the local apprenticeship market as a structural condition, highly influence the general allocation to ALMP. For the allocation to specific ALMP, sociodemographics (age, education, type of disability, status before entering VR) are highly relevant. Furthermore, structural conditions (regional structure of subsidized vocational training and of the apprenticeship market as well as local work possibilities on a special labor market for PWD) and – to a lesser extent - re-organization processes at the FEA (NEO, VR cohort) are important determinants.

Conclusion

(Automatic) paths into VR programs for especially persons with mental disabilities in sheltered workshop are clearly shown. Furthermore, it is somewhat questionable that YPWD participate more often in sheltered workshops in regions where sheltered work possibilities are more common, as well as where NEO was implemented locally; and participate more often in company-external vocational training where VR service providers are commissioned to a greater extent.

We estimated separate models for men and women. However, differences were so small that we returned to use a dummy variable for sex within the models.

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Title: Preventing a Scarring Start into the Labor Market: Integration Strategies for Young Persons with Disabilities
Authors: Nancy Reims
Angela Rauch
Ulrich Thomsen
Publication date: 20-03-2023
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation / Issue 4/2023
Print ISSN: 1053-0487
Electronic ISSN: 1573-3688
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10926-023-10111-9

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Preventing a Scarring Start into the Labor Market: Integration Strategies for Young Persons with Disabilities

Abstract

Purpose

Materials and methods

Results

Conclusion

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