Aufbau und Analyse des LTA-Rehaprozessdatenpanels: Eine Prozessdatenbasis zur Untersuchung beruflicher Rehabilitation in Trägerschaft der Bundesagentur für Arbeit
The report associated with the project "evaluation of benefits for the labour market participation of people with disabilities (
LTA)” financed by the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs summarizes the most important results that were identified in the context of the project module "update and re-establishment of the
LTA rehaprocess data panel (
LTA-RehaPro) and analyses from the process data panel" (modul 1).
The module aimed at constructing a process data panel that is based on administrative data coming from business routines of the German Federal Employment Agency (FEA). Furthermore, the data was used to analyse the rehabilitation process. Both data and analyses focus on persons with health limitations and disabilities aiming at or taking-up vocational rehabilitation in the financial responsibility of the FEA. Analyses distinguish young persons in first labour market integration from persons in labour market re-integration.
The rehabilitation process is analysed as a whole, as well as in its separate process steps. In the context of young adults in their first labour market integration, studies mainly focus on the whole process from school, over vocational rehabilitation and participation in labour market measures to the transition into the labour market. Thus, within the project a process monitoring was conducted that is to be continued after the project.
Furthermore, we identified typical labour market trajectories of rehabilitants after completing school. As a specific focus, the general and specific choice of labour market measures of young adults was analysed, as well as the particular conditions and specific needs of young adults with mental illness within the process of vocational rehabilitation. For the latter study results from the administrative
LTA-RehaPro data were combined with findings from qualitative interviews of young adults from modul 2 of the
LTA-project. Analogues to young adults, we established a process monitoring to examine the entire vocational rehabilitation process of adults in labour market re-integration that will be continued after the end of the project, as well.
Focussing on specific process steps, further studies cover the acceptance process and the associated role of the labour market status, the general and specific allocation to labour market measures and the transition into the labour market. Particularly, the labour market transition was focussed in greater detail. On the one hand, one study considers the transition into employment, as well as the sustainability of employment for rehabilitants completing further training measures.
On the other hand, first counterfactual analyses identify employment effects for participants and non-participants in further training measures within the context of vocational rehabilitation (1) and for participants in further training with and without a rehabilitation status (2). Furthermore, employment effects of accepted and non-accepted persons after applying for vocational rehabilitation are compared. The data and analyses are somehow limited in their scope. Thus, the main restriction regards limited health related data on accepted and non-accepted applicants for vocational rehabilitation.
This is particularly relevant for health limitations regarding individual occupational opportunities. The
LTA-RehaPro data - as a full sample of persons in the financial responsibility of the FEA - constitutes a rich and comprehensive data source in order to examine vocational rehabilitation. Though, the rehabilitation process is broadly analysed, there are still aspects that have not been dealt with exhaustively and that encourage follow-up research. First questions are answered, new ones are posed. Therefore, research is continued beyond the context of the
LTA project.
