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

Table A4: First stage of the IV regression

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

	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)
German County Association	0.297**	0.258**	0.195**	0.190**
	[0.058]	[0.053]	[0.038]	[0.035]
Specialized case management		-0.233**	-0.164**	-0.163**
		[0.056]	[0.043]	[0.039]
Own vacancy recruitment service			0.379**	0.378**
			[0.037]	[0.038]
Integrated matching approach			-0.025	-0.055
			[0.117]	[0.112]
Length of first interview (Log)				-0.020
				[0.039]
First interview within 2 weeks				-0.165**
				[0.041]
Agreement signed				0.034
				[0.080]
Long-term unemployed (Log)	0.119	0.059	0.019	0.001
	[0.087]	[0.085]	[0.074]	[0.070]
Long-term unemployed in neighbouring regions (Log)	-0.070	0.012	0.073	0.083
	[0.088]	[0.094]	[0.065]	[0.062]
Short-term unemployed (Log)	-0.084	0.028	-0.047	-0.022
	[0.074]	[0.063]	[0.052]	[0.056]
Short-term unemployed in neighbouring regions (Log)	-0.000	-0.059	-0.172**	-0.181**
	[0.114]	[0.092]	[0.056]	[0.058]
New vacancies (Log)	-0.395**	-0.327**	-0.207**	-0.190*
	[0.101]	[0.085]	[0.067]	[0.068]
New vacancies in neighbouring regions (Log)	0.032	-0.005	0.037	0.032
New vacancies in neighbouring regions (Log)	[0.077]	[0.079]	[0.055]	[0.051]
Rural regions	-0.033	-0.034	0.049	0.044
	[0.062]	[0.055]	[0.053]	[0.058]
Metropolitan regions	-0.152	-0.130	-0.044	-0.031
	[0.072]	[0.078]	[0.067]	[0.068]
East Germany	0.113*	0.111**	0.160**	0.132*
	[0.048]	[0.035]	[0.040]	[0.046]
Population (Log)	0.411**	0.304**	0.204*	0.191
	[0.120]	[0.100]	[0.089]	[0.095]
Constant	-2.264*	-1.611*	-0.285	-0.079
	[0.810]	[0.660]	[0.494]	[0.558]
Observations	409	399	399	387
R-squared	0.30	0.38	0.57	0.59

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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