• Media type: E-Book; Report
  • Title: The dilemma of delegating search: Budgeting in public employment services
  • Contributor: Addison, John T. [Author]; Altemeyer-Bartscher, Martin [Author]; Kuhn, Thomas [Author]
  • imprint: Bonn: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), 2010
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: Arbeitsvermittlung ; J64 ; public employment service ; search theory ; matching unemployment ; Kooperative Führung ; Betriebliche Budgetierung ; Theorie ; delegation problem ; Arbeitsuche ; Arbeitsverwaltung ; D82 ; moral hazard ; Ökonomischer Anreiz
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  • Description: 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. Because their search intensity in contacting employers and collecting data is not verifiable by the central authority, a typical moral hazard problem can arise. To overcome the delegation problem and provide high-powered incentives for high levels of search effort on the part of job centers, we propose output-related schemes that assign greater staff capacity to agencies achieving high strike rates.
  • Access State: Open Access