Eva­lua­ti­on of the effects of the fun­ding prin­ci­ples "Work Inclu­si­ve" — WiA­rIn — We are In!

Aims

To what ext­ent do mea­su­res for the labour mar­ket-ori­en­ted qua­li­fi­ca­ti­on of par­ti­ci­pan­ts con­tri­bu­te to an impro­ved par­ti­ci­pa­ti­on situa­ti­on? This is the cen­tral ques­ti­on of the rese­arch pro­ject "Eva­lua­ti­on of the Effects of the Labour Inclu­si­ve Fun­ding Prin­ci­ples". The results of this pro­ject will be used to review and fur­ther deve­lop the pro­fes­sio­nal stan­dards.

Approach

The coll­ec­tion of infor­ma­ti­on at the level of the par­ti­ci­pan­ts, the socio-spa­ti­al level and the labour mar­ket level was essen­ti­al­ly car­ri­ed out by means of two cen­tral stu­dies focu­sing on quan­ti­ta­ti­ve aspects: a pro­gress stu­dy and a retro­s­pec­ti­ve stu­dy. Both stu­dies invol­ved par­ti­ci­pan­ts and their employ­ers.

The tar­get group of the fol­low-up stu­dy were peo­p­le with signi­fi­cant disa­bi­li­ties who took up a job in the gene­ral labour mar­ket for the first time bet­ween July 2020 and July 2022 and recei­ved bene­fits from the "Arbeit Inklu­siv" pro­gram­me. The fol­low-up stu­dy was imple­men­ted as a lon­gi­tu­di­nal stu­dy with two sur­vey dates one year apart. The retro­s­pec­ti­ve stu­dy focus­sed on all per­sons with signi­fi­cant disa­bi­li­ties who have recei­ved bene­fits from the "Arbeit Inklu­siv" pro­gram­me in the past to estab­lish the employ­ment rela­ti­onship. A qua­li­ta­ti­ve stu­dy to vali­da­te and deepen the data coll­ec­ted in this way by employees with signi­fi­cant disa­bi­li­ties and employ­ers com­ple­ted the sur­veys.

Cour­se of rese­arch

Despi­te the huge chal­lenges posed by the pan­de­mic, a wide ran­ge of mea­su­res was used to achie­ve suf­fi­ci­ent case num­bers to pro­du­ce meaningful results. The spe­ci­fic con­text in which the pro­ject was car­ri­ed out was also con­stant­ly reflec­ted upon and taken into account. The lar­ge num­ber of cases requi­red for in-depth sta­tis­ti­cal ana­ly­ses was achie­ved thanks to the gre­at com­mit­ment of the spe­cia­list coun­sell­ors from the inte­gra­ti­on ser­vices. In total, more than 600 par­ti­ci­pan­ts and over 230 com­pa­nies were able to con­tri­bu­te their views on the impact of the fun­ding prin­ci­ples to the pro­ject.

Results