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

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(2)

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Approved Local Provider

-0.033

-0.052*

-0.061*

-0.046

[0.020]

[0.021]

[0.025]

[0.029]

Specialized case management

-0.042*

-0.041*

-0.038*

[0.015]

[0.015]

[0.015]

Own vacancy recruitment service

0.009

0.003

[0.020]

[0.020]

Integrated matching approach

0.023

0.035

[0.022]

[0.023]

Length of first interview (Log)

0.022

[0.021]

First interview within 2 weeks

0.000

[0.000]

Agreement signed

0.000

[0.000]

Long-term unemployed (Log)

0.687**

0.677**

0.677**

0.682**

[0.044]

[0.044]

[0.043]

[0.042]

Long-term unemployed in neighbouring
regions (Log)

-0.013

0.002

0.003

-0.001

[0.057]

[0.059]

[0.057]

[0.056]

Short-term unemployed (Log)

0.236*

0.250*

0.247*

0.246*

[0.106]

[0.107]

[0.107]

[0.106]

Short-term unemployed in neighbouring
regions (Log)

-0.190

-0.200

-0.203

-0.197

[0.103]

[0.106]

[0.104]

[0.101]

New vacancies (Log)

0.032

0.041

0.042

0.039

[0.022]

[0.022]

[0.023]

[0.023]

New vacancies in neighbouring regions
(Log)

0.109*

0.100*

0.101*

0.102*

[0.037]

[0.037]

[0.037]

[0.037]

Rural regions

0.021

0.026

0.028

0.024

[0.031]

[0.032]

[0.031]

[0.031]

Metropolitan regions

-0.104*

-0.101*

-0.099*

-0.107*

[0.043]

[0.038]

[0.039]

[0.039]

East Germany

-0.027

-0.022

-0.020

-0.023

[0.043]

[0.041]

[0.041]

[0.041]

Population (Log)

0.101

0.092

0.091

0.087

[0.069]

[0.068]

[0.068]

[0.073]

Constant

-2.696**

-2.627**

-2.605**

-2.744**

[0.483]

[0.490]

[0.488]

[0.452]

Observations

409

399

399

387

R-squared

0.98

0.98

0.98

0.98