Age, health and other factors associated with return to work for those engaging with a welfare-to-work initiative: a cohort study of administrative data from the UK's Work Programme.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To investigate the role of individual factors (including age, health and personal circumstances) and external factors associated with clients having a job start while engaging with the Work Programme and variations by benefit type.

Setting

The UK Government's main return to work initiative (The Work Programme) in Scotland.

Design

Piecewise Poisson regression to calculate incident rate ratios using administrative data from 2013 to 2016 to identify factors associated with job start.

Participants

4322 Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) clients not in work due to poor health and 8996 Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA) clients, aged 18-64 years, referred to the Work Programme between April 2013 and July 2014.

Main outcome measures

Starting a job and t

SUBMITTER: Brown J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6224745 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature