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Table A.1 Descriptive statistics

From: Should local public employment services be merged with local social benefit administrations?Sollten kommunale Arbeitsvermittlungsagenturen mit der kommunalen Sozialverwaltung fusioniert werden?

 

Approved Local Providers

Joint Local Agencies

All job centres

Job centres (= number of regions)

69

353

442

Sample (= number of regions)

56

353

409

Job finding rate

3.83 %

3.98 %

3.96 %

Job finding rate in rural regions

3.83 %

4.21 %

4.15 %

Specialised case management

75.8 %

24.6 %

67.9 %

Generalised case management

24.2 %

75.4 %

32.1 %

Own vacancy recruitment service

91.1 %

16.6 %

27.1 %

Integrated matching approach

14.3 %

6.7 %

7.77 %

Length of first interview (in minutes)

51 min

48 min

49 min

First interview within 2 weeks

71.1 %

46.6 %

67.5 %

Agreement signed

73.0%

74.1 %

73.9 %

Unemployment benefit II recipients finding a job each month

241

296

288

Unemployment benefit II recipients

6,609

8,540

8,276

Unemployment benefit II recipients in neighbouring regions (weighted)

5,180

7,210

6,940

Short-term unemployed

3,474

3,610

3,592

Short-term unemployed in neighbouring regions

2,287

3,108

2,996

New vacancies

357

607

572

New vacancies in neighbouring regions

376

502

484

Rural regions

91.1 %

68.3 %

71.4 %

Metropolitan regions

1.8 %

10.8 %

9.5 %

Population

173,584

187,636

185,712

  1. The variables of neighbouring regions are constructed such that regions within 100 km are weighted inversely to their distance to the region under consideration