The poor performance often attributed to many public employment services may be explained in part by a delegation problem between the central office and local job centers. In markets characterized by frictions, job centers function as match-makers, linking job seekers with relevant vacancies....

Profiling tools help to deliver employment services more efficiently. They can ensure that more costly, intensive services are targeted at jobseekers most at risk of becoming long term unemployed. Moreover, the detailed information on the employment barriers facing jobseekers obtained through...

Moderne Dienstleistungen am Arbeitsmarkt anbieten und sicherstellen--Das ist ein erklärtes Ziel der Arbeitsmarktreformen der vergangenen Jahre. In diesem Band werden die Vermittlungs- und Beratungsleistungen von Agenturen und Grundsicherungsstellen ausführlich und praxisnah analysiert. Auf der...

Our paper analyzes the role of public employment agencies in job matching, in particular the effects of the restructuring of the Federal Employment Agency in Germany (Hartz III labor market reform) for aggregate matching and unemployment. Based on two microeconomic datasets, we show that the...