The short-run and long-run effects of decentralizing public employment services

Arbeitspapier

A German policy experiment from 2012 allows me to identify the short-run and longruncausal effects of decentralization on the placement efficiency of public employmentservices (PES). I exploit variation over time and across districts with different types ofPES in a difference-in-differences framework. Decentralization had significant negativeeffects on placements in the short run, but not in the long run. This points to a transitionprocess, during which caseworkers acquire relevant placement skills. Decentralizationalso had a persistent negative effect on sanctions on the welfare recipients, which probablyindicates a reluctance of local authorities to reduce the well-being of their potential voters.

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• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: ifo Working Paper ; No. 209

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models; Quantile Regressions ; Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity ; Particular Labor Markets: Public Policy
• Thema: Public employment services ; job placement ; matching efficiency ; differencein- differences.

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Weber, Michael
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich
• (wo): Munich
• (wann): 2016

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/130385
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ