Contracting out placement services in Germany: is assignment to private providers effective for needy job-seekers?

Abstract: "Contracting out placement services aims at enhancing the effectiveness of placements of unemployed job-seekers through market mechanisms. This paper analyses the effectiveness of the temporary assignment of needy job-seekers to private placement services by comparing their outcomes with respect to employment, unemployment and benefit receipt with those of a suitable control group. Using recently available administrative data we apply propensity score matching to construct the control group. We regard a period after a policy reform in 2005 that introduced a new means-tested benefit, the unemployment benefit II, and emphasized the activation of needy unemployed people. Hard-to-place job-seekers usually need more effort to be placed into a job. Therefore it is an interesting question whether groups of people with different a priori employment probabilities benefit to a different extent from an assignment to a private placement service. To answer this question we analyse several subgr

Object Details

• Alternative title: Privatisierung der Arbeitsvermittlung in Deutschland: lohnt sich die Zuweisung zu privaten Anbietern für bedürftige Arbeitssuchende?
• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource, 38 S.
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Preprint ; begutachtet

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: IAB Discussion Paper: Beiträge zum wissenschaftlichen Dialog aus dem Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung ; Bd. 5/2008

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Nürnberg
• (when): 2008
• Creator: Bernhard, Sarah ; Wolff, Joachim
• Contributor: Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung der Bundesagentur für Arbeit (IAB)

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-294160
• Rights: Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Last update: 15.08.2025, 7:30 AM CEST