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

Journal for Labour Market Research

Table 6 IV estimates of the relationship of ALPs and the number of unemployment benefit II recipients finding a job

Dependent variable	Log number of benefit II recipients finding a job each month
Dependent variable	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)
Approved Local Provider	−0.018 [0.084]	−0.031 [0.102]	−0.058 [0.137]	−0.087 [0.140]
Specialised case management		−0.019 [0.025]	−0.022 [0.025]	−0.029 [0.027]
Own vacancy recruitment service			0.011 [0.052]	0.023 [0.054]
Integrated matching approach			0.039 [0.020]	0.043 [0.025]
Length of first interview (Log)				0.023 [0.018]
First interview within 2 weeks				0.027 [0.031]
Agreement signed				0.010 [0.025]
Observations	409	399	399	387
F-Statistic	8.02	7.92	12.01	13.72
Durbin-Wu-Hausman Test (p-value)	0.988	0.998	0.865	0.635
R-Squared	0.973	0.973	0.973	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. The variables of neighbouring regions are constructed such that regions within 100 km are weighted inversely to their distance to the region under consideration
Confidence intervals with * and ** indicate significance at a 5 % and 1 % level, respectively