[Challenges and Adaptation Strategies of Service Providers in Vocational Rehabilitation - A Mixed-Methods Analysis].

Aim Of The Study: The aim of this study was to identify current challenges faced by service providers (SPs) as well as those likely to arise in the future and the coping strategies to deal with them. Challenges are requirements externally imposed on the SPs and perceived by them as central to their work. We focus on SPs that offered disability-specific programs financed by the Federal Employment Agency in December 2016.

Working conditions in essential occupations and the role of migrants.

Following a national lockdown in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, state governments in Germany published lists of "essential" occupations that were considered necessary to maintain basic services such as health care, social care, food production and transport. This paper examines working conditions in these essential occupations and identifies clusters of similar jobs. Differences across clusters are highlighted using detailed data on job characteristics including working conditions, tasks and educational requirements.

[Vocational Rehabilitation - Comparing Clients of the Federal Employment Agency and the German Pension Insurance].

Objective: The Federal Employment Agency (Bundesagentur für Arbeit, BA) and the German Pension Insurance (Deutsche Rentenversicherung, DRV) are the major institutions responsible for vocational rehabilitation (VR) in Germany. The following paper compares the characteristics of persons in vocational rehabilitation and the utilization of rehabilitation services between those two institutions and presents short-term developments.

Methods: Administrative data of the BA and the DRV were made comparable.