scholarly journals Labor Market Equilibrium with Public Employment Agency

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Holzner ◽  
Makoto Watanabe
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Market Equilibrium ◽  
Public Employment ◽  
Employment Agency

scholarly journals Placement Advisors as Innovators. How Professionals Use Enhanced Discretion in Germany’s Public Employment Services

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
CAROLIN FREIER ◽  
MONIKA SENGHAAS
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Public Employment ◽  
Labour Market Situation ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Employment Services ◽  
Employment Agency ◽  
Logic Of Action ◽  
Market Situation ◽  
Innovation Project ◽  
Activation Policy

Abstract Employees of the public employment services (PES) are street-level bureaucrats who shape activation policy on the ground. This paper examines how PES staff use enhanced discretion in an innovation project carried out by the German Federal Employment Agency. Applying a bottom-up perspective, we reconstruct PES employees’ logic of action and the dilemmas they face in improving counselling and placement services. According to our findings, placement staff use enhanced discretion to promote more individualised support and an adequate matching of jobseekers and employers. The use of discretion is framed by organisational norms and reward mechanisms and by the current labour market situation. Our analyses are based on qualitative interviews and group discussions with placement staff.

Not Enough Time?

2014 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel S. Hamermesh
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Market Equilibrium ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Market Work ◽  
Work Time ◽  
Rich Countries ◽  
The U.S ◽  
American Labor

This study summarizes evidence on various unique aspects of work time in the American labor market. Compared to workers in other rich countries, Americans: Work longer hours per week; take fewer paid vacations; are more likely to work on weekends or at nights; enjoy fewer daily hours of leisure; are more likely to feel pressured for time. Except for night/weekend work, these phenomena are concentrated among higher earners. Their workaholism spills over onto other workers and non-worker family members. The study indicates policy remedies for what appears to be an inferior labor-market equilibrium of excessive market work in the U.S.

scholarly journals The DEA Method and its Application Possibilities for Measuring Efficiency in the Public Sector—The Case of Local Public Employment Services

Economies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 80
Author(s):  
Ewa Cichowicz ◽  
Ewa Rollnik-Sadowska ◽  
Monika Dędys ◽  
Maria Ekes
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Public Employment ◽  
Employment Services ◽  
The Public ◽  
Measuring Efficiency ◽  
Dea Method ◽  
The Unemployed

Public Employment Services (PES) are identified as important institutions in the process of improving the match between supply and demand in the labor market, which, despite their importance, still do not achieve the desired efficiency. The indicated problem is partly due to the lack of appropriate evaluation methods for the applied labor market policy instruments. This paper aims to verify the possibility of using the two-stage Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method in measuring the efficiency of public sector entities. The authors focused on 39 PES operating in Mazovia province, Poland in 2019. In the first stage, the model of technical efficiency of local PES included six variables (four inputs and two outputs). Only seven PES obtained full efficiency. The inefficiency of analyzed PES varied from about 1% to 80%. In the second stage, the attention focuses on the relationship between true unknown efficiency and its determinants (five environmental variables, both demand and supply oriented). Then, the regression coefficients and confidence intervals showed that three out of five variables influence the efficiency results, the share of the long-term unemployed, the share of the unemployed under 30, and the share of the unemployed over 50 in the total number of unemployed.

Money-Wage Dynamics and Labor-Market Equilibrium

1968 ◽  
Vol 76 (4, Part 2) ◽  
pp. 678-711 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edmund S. Phelps
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Market Equilibrium ◽  
Wage Dynamics ◽  
Money Wage

Der Quasi-Markt für Arbeitsvermittlung in Deutschland: Welche Rolle spielen Vertrags- und Trägermerkmale bei ausgeschriebenen Vermittlungsdienstleistungen?

2016 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 271-300
Author(s):  
Sarah Bernhard
Keyword(s):  
Private Provider ◽  
Proportional Hazard ◽  
Public Employment ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
The Public ◽  
Employment Agency ◽  
The Past ◽  
Public Employment Service ◽  
Cox Proportional Hazard ◽  
Placement Services

AbstractIn Germany, the public employment service partially contracts out job placement services to private providers. Do the private provider’s characteristics or the contract design or remuneration influence the job searcher’s probability to be placed into a new job? To answer these questions we analyze unique administrative data of the Federal Employment Agency with cox proportional hazard regressions. Job searchers have a higher propensity to be placed into a new job by a private provider when the provider is a non-profit organization or when the private provider had above-average placement rates in the past. Result-oriented remuneration of providers, such as “no-cure, no pay” and “nocure, less pay” models and contract elements that allow enhancing quality, positively influence the propensity to obtain a job.

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