Should local public employment services be merged with local social benefit administrations?

Journal for Labour Market Research

Table 4 Relationship between ALPs and the number of unemployment benefits II recipients finding a job each month

Dependent variable	Log number of benefit II recipients finding a job each month
OLS estimates
Approved Local Providers	−0.018	[0.084]
Observations	409
Moran’s I	0.863
p-Value (Moran’s I)	0.388
R-Squared	0.973
IV estimates
Approved Local Providers	−0.018	[0.084]
Observations	409
F-Statistic	8.02
Durbin-Wu-Hausman Test (p-Value)	0.988
R-Squared	0.973

Standard errors are given in parentheses. Observations are clustered at the level of the 16 German states and weighted by the number of unemployment benefit II recipients in each region
Confidence intervals with * and ** indicate significance at a 5 % and 1 % level, respectively