Professional reintegration of people with health problems with costs borne by the Federal Employment Agency

Abstract

"As part of the benefits for the participation in working life (Leistungen zur Teilhabe am Arbeitsleben, LTA; occupational rehabilitation), people with disabilities and health problems can be supported with their professional re-integration into the labour market. The present study describes the group of people in detail who seek professional re-integration with the BA as rehabilitants. As a supplement to the regular BA statistics, the analyses add further personal characteristics and provide an overview of individual employment and rehabilitation histories. Besides the personal structure and characteristics, the measures taken as well as the access status directly before the beginning of the rehabilitation and the professional activities of the person supported prior and after professional rehabilitation are examined. The descriptive analyses are based on data from the LTA rehabilitation process data panel. These are administrative data collected from the BA business processes on the one hand and from notifications for social insurance on the other hand. Using these data, the entirety of the rehabilitation process can be shown, as well as the employment histories before and after the rehabilitation processes. The analyses contain the period of time between the application for and the approval of LTA between the years 2010 and 2015. Since 2010, a continuous increase in application numbers for LTA has been observed. Approx. 80 % of applications are approved. Besides persons who apply from unemployment, employed persons are the second largest group. Their share among the persons supported has continuously been increasing. About half of the persons recognised in 2015 has a disability of the musculoskeletal system, about one third are persons with a mental disability. Most persons supported receive further training or retraining measures as well as technical workplace adjustments. The latter are increasingly more often and mainly claimed by persons with disabilities of the musculoskeletal system. After the rehabilitation process, manual activities are performed less often, and non-manual as well as cognitive and analytical activities are performed more often. Directly after a rehabilitation process, more than half of those persons has a new or previously existing employment relationship. Previously existing employment relationships can often be kept by providing technical aids. The increased numbers of applications and utilisation of LTA can probably be attributed to better knowledgeability of employers and persons supported as well as to the increased need on the part of the BA to take preventive measures prior to a possible job loss." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Reims, N., Nivorozhkin, A. & Tophoven, S. (2018): Die berufliche Wiedereingliederung von Personen mit gesundheitlichen Einschränkungen in Kostenträgerschaft der Bundesagentur für Arbeit. In: Bayern in Zahlen, Vol. 149, No. 9, p. 600-601.