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

Table A2: OLS-Estimates

Dependent variable: Log number of long-term unemployed finding a job each month

	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)
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*
New vacancies in neighbouring regions (Log)	[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

Standard errors are given in parentheses. Coefficients with * and ** indicate significance at a 5 % and 1 %
level, respectively. Observations are clustered at the level of the 16 German states and weighted accordingly.

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