Performance Analysis of Support Centers for Continuous Employment Type A

Abstract

Welfare policies for people with disabilities have recently been reformed through the introduction of a market system. Support centers for continuous employment type A were established as a mixture of public welfare services and ordinary businesses, providing the necessary job training, support, and employment opportunities to connect people with disabilities to ordinary jobs. However, balancing welfare and business ethics remains challenging. Therefore, using managerial data, we analyzed the performance of support centers for type A continuous employment in terms of workers’ wages, income and expenditure differences, profit margins, and the transition to regular employment. We studied the determinants of business performance by considering business location, ownership, productive activities, welfare service features, and so on.