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

Holzner, Christian; Munz, Sonja

doi:10.1007/s12651-012-0117-7

Journal for Labour Market Research

Table A.2 OLS-Estimates

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

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]
Unemployment benefit II recipients (Log)	0.774** [0.059]	0.767** [0.061]	0.762** [0.067]	0.760** [0.072]
Unemployment benefit II recipients in neighbouring regions (Log)	−0.137 [0.071]	−0.132 [0.075]	−0.128 [0.076]	−0.135 [0.074]
Short-term unemployed (Log)	−0.024 [0.072]	−0.018 [0.070]	−0.017 [0.068]	−0.025 [0.076]
Short-term unemployed in neighbouring regions (Log)	0.036 [0.084]	0.035 [0.083]	0.038 [0.084]	0.061 [0.090]
New vacancies (Log)	0.047 [0.028]	0.046 [0.028]	0.044 [0.026]	0.035 [0.025]
New vacancies in neighbouring regions (Log)	0.082 [0.070]	0.079 [0.072]	0.071 [0.072]	0.055 [0.074]
Rural regions	0.026 [0.021]	0.020 [0.026]	0.020 [0.025]	0.018 [0.025]
Metropolitan regions	−0.034 [0.033]	−0.044 [0.032]	−0.046 [0.031]	−0.050 [0.030]
Population (Log)	0.170 [0.087]	0.171 [0.084]	0.174 [0.093]	0.194* [0.090]
Constant	−2.931** [0.544]	−2.925** [0.510]	−2.935** [0.527]	−3.176** [0.479]
Observations	409	399	399	387
Moran’s I	0.863	0.870	0.886	0.874
p-Value (Moran’s I)	0.388	0.384	0.376	0.382
R-Squared	0.973	0.973	0.973	0.973

Standard errors are given in parentheses
Confidence intervals with * and ** indicate significance at a 5 % and 1 % level, respectively. 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

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