Projektart: Eigenprojekt Wissenschaftliche Arbeit Studie
Der Social Return on Investment beruflicher Reha im BFW Nürnberg

Background and state of the literature, purpose of the study: Vocational Training Centres explicitly pursue the approach of setting up job qualification for a longer period of time and supporting it with a demand-oriented concept of medical, psychological, socio-pedagogical and integration-accompanying assistance. It is obvious that such measures initially place a greater burden on the cost bearer than shorter-term qualification measures without accompanying costs for infrastructure and specialist services. However, it is not possible to decide on the basis of cost rates alone which form of measure is the better one. What is needed is transparency about the effects on the various stakeholders: The cost bearer, the public sector in general, and the rehabilitants. These are, on the one hand, monetary effects (e.g. income, taxes and social security contributions from subsequent employment) and, on the other hand, non-monetary effects (e.g. participation in working life, experiences of self-efficacy, social climate). Only in this way can we talk about actual (net) costs and only in this way can we compare forms of measures: about their effectiveness. Methodology and study design: The study establishes this transparency with the help of the Social Return on Investment method. The approach used here was developed in a cooperation of xit GmbH forschen. planen. beraten in Nuremberg with the SROI/NPO-Controlling department of the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and, after numerous studies in the field of integration assistance (focus on WfbM), was applied for the first time to vocational rehabilitation in BFW, using BFW Nuremberg as an example. The transfer payments from the public sector to the executing agency and service recipients are offset by returns that result from the entrepreneurial activity of the executing agency and the vocational integration of the rehabilitants after completion of the measure. Using accounting data from the Vocational Training Centre Nuremberg and anonymized pension accounts of different cohorts of rehabilitants of the BFW, long-term societal costs and returns of rehabilitation measures were determined. Results: The SROI study shows on the basis of reliable empirical data that the comparatively cost-intensive two-year qualification measures are economically worthwhile both for the public sector and for the rehabilitants.