We analyze state-level matching efficiency in the Indian labor market using stochastic frontier analysis. The key contribution of this research is the estimation of matching efficiency at the state level because the estimates can be used for a state-level measure of labor market conditions....

A public employment program's effect on poverty depends on both program earnings and market impacts. We estimate this composite effect, exploiting a large-scale randomized experiment across 157 sub-districts and 19 million people that improved the implementation of India's employment guarantee....

Public employment programs may affect poverty through both the income they provide and their effects on private labor markets. We estimate both effects, exploiting a large-scale experiment randomized across 157 sub-districts (with an average population of 62,500 each) that improved the...

Das New Public Management wurde angesichts staatlicher Budgetprobleme auch in Deutschland eingeführt, um im Bereich der öffentlichen Verwaltung Effizienz und Effektivität durch ökonomische Ansätze zu steigern. Insbesondere im sozialen Sektor fallen dem Staat Aufgaben zu, die durch...

Mit dem SGB II fanden Elemente des New Public Management Einzug in die staatliche Beschäftigungspolitik. Der Erfolgs- und Wirtschaftlichkeitskontrolle dient ein aufwändiges Controllingsystem der Bundesagentur für Arbeit. Mit dem qualitativen Instrument offener Interviews wird untersucht, ob...

Job seekers can influence the arrival rate of job offers by the choice of search effort and the search methods they use. In this paper we empirically investigate the contribution of the use of different search methods on the outcome of search. Using unique data on the search behaviour of job...