Public Employment Services and Employers: How Important Are Networks with Firms?

Stefanie Behncke, Markus Frölich () and Michael Lechner

No 3005, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper examines whether contacts between caseworkers in public employment offices and employers impact on the reemployment chances of the unemployed they counsel. This analysis is made possible through a large administrative dataset on unemployed combined with an extensive survey of caseworkers' characteristics and their strategies. This data was created for evaluating public employment services in Switzerland. We use econometric techniques from the treatment evaluation literature to identify causal effects of a more intense employer focus of the caseworkers. The estimation results indicate that caseworkers who maintain direct contacts to firms achieve higher reintegration rates.

Keywords: new public management; public employment services; employer focus (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38 pages
Date: 2007-08
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-net
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Published - published in: Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, 2008, 1, 151-178

Downloads: (external link)
https://docs.iza.org/dp3005.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: Public Employment Services and Employers: How Important are Networks with Firms? (2007)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:iza:izadps:dp3005

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
IZA, Margard Ody, P.O. Box 7240, D-53072 Bonn, Germany

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) IZA, P.O. Box 7240, D-53072 Bonn, Germany. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Holger Hinte ().