Effects of Vocational Re-training on Employment Outcomes Among Persons with Disabilities in Germany: A Quasi-Experiment.

Purpose To investigate how completing vocational re-training influenced income and employment days of working-age people with disabilities in the first 8 years after program admission. The investigation also included the influence of vocational re-training on the likelihood of receiving an earnings...

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Publicado en:Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation Vol. 30; no. 2; pp. 221 - 235
Autores principales: Echarti, Nicolas, Schüring, Esther, O'Donoghue, Cathal
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Publicado: Springer Nature Jun2020
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          Echarti, Nicolas
          Schüring, Esther
          O'Donoghue, Cathal
        affil: Maastricht Graduate School of Governance, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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          Employment of Persons with Disabilities Germany
          Rehabilitation, Vocational Germany
          Program Evaluation
          Income
          Pensions
          Economic and Social Security
          Human
          Male
          Female
          Adult
          Middle Age
          Germany
          Quasi-Experimental Studies
          Retrospective Design
          Prospective Studies
          Regression Methods
          Descriptive Statistics
          Job Re-Entry
          Confidence Intervals
          Adult: 19-44 years
          Middle Aged: 45-64 years
          Male
          Female
      ab: Purpose To investigate how completing vocational re-training influenced income and employment days of working-age people with disabilities in the first 8 years after program admission. The investigation also included the influence of vocational re-training on the likelihood of receiving an earnings incapacity pension and on social security benefit receipt. Methods This retrospective cohort study with 8 years follow up was based on data from 2399 individuals who had completed either a 1-year vocational re-training program (n = 278), or a 2-year vocational re-training program (n = 1754) or who were admitted into re-training but never completed the program (n = 367). A propensity score-based method was used to account for observed differences and establish comparability between program graduates and program dropouts. Changes in outcomes were examined using the inverse probability-weighted regression adjustment method. Results After controlling for other factors, over the 8 years after program admission, graduates of 1-year re-training, on average, were employed for an additional 405 days, 95% CI [249 days, 561 days], and had earned €24,260 more than without completed re-training, 95% CI [€12,805, €35,715]. Two-year program completers, on average, were employed for 441 additional days, 95% CI [349 days, 534 days], and had earned €35,972 more than without completed re-training, 95% CI [€27,743, €44,202]. The programs also significantly reduced the number of days on social-security and unemployment benefits and lowered the likelihood of an earnings incapacity pension. Conclusion Policies to promote the labor market re-integration of persons with disabilities should consider that vocational re-training may be an effective tool for sustainably improving work participation outcomes.
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