Beschreibung

"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 VR using inverse probability weighting based on propensity scores provides an insight into the effects of vocational rehabilitation. The results suggest that the employment prospects of those 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." (Author's abstract, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))