Should Local Public Employment Services be Merged with the Local Social Benefit Administrations?

Appendix

Table A1: Descriptive statistics

	Approved Local Providers	Joint Local Agencies	All job centres
Job centres (= number of regions)	69	353	442
Sample (= number of regions)	56	353	409
Job finding rate	3.69 %	3.50 %	3.52 %
Job finding rate in rural regions	3.70 %	3. 89 %	3.85 %
Specialized case management	75.8 %	24.6 %	67.2 %
Generalized case management	24.2 %	75.4 %	32.8 %
Own vacancy recruitment service	89.9 %	16.6 %	28.9 %
Integrated matching approach	14.5 %	6.7 %	8.01 %
Length of first interview (in minutes)	52 min	48 min	49 min
First interview within 2 weeks	71.1 %	45.4 %	66.6 %
Agreement signed	72.9 %	74.1 %	73.9 %
Long-term unemployed	6,544	8,539	8,257
Long-term unemployed in neighbouring regions	46,569	41,279	42,144
Short-term unemployed	3,484	3,593	3,575
Short-term unemployed in neighbouring regions	22,026	19,461	19,880
New vacancies	357	575	539
New vacancies in neighbouring regions	3,292	2,812	2,891
Rural regions	91,3 %	68.3 %	72.0 %
Metropolitan regions	1.4 %	10.8 %	9.2 %
East Germany	27.5 %	28.9 %	28.7 %
Population	183,909	187,636	187,026