TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Ayaita, Adam
AU  - Grund, Christian
AU  - Pütz, Lisa
        TI  - Job Placement via Private vs. Public Employment Agencies: Investigating Selection Effects and Job Match Quality in Germany
        PY  - 2021/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 14024
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp14024
        AB  - Employment agencies aim to match individuals to appropriate jobs. There are public and private employment agencies, which co-exist in many countries. Selection effects may be relevant in the sense that private agencies potentially engage in 'cream-skimming' by prioritizing highly qualified workers. The resulting job match quality is also important from an individual, a firm, and a society perspective. 
We examine the selection into job placement via private and public employment agencies as well as the resulting job match qualities, taking a job-market reform in Germany into account: the introduction of placement vouchers for private job placements. Using representative German panel data, we find that cream-skimming is significantly less pronounced under the voucher policy, as private agencies shift the focus toward unemployed individuals with a voucher. In addition, we find evidence based on propensity score matching estimations that private agencies tend to create better matches than their public counterparts.
        KW  - job placement
KW  - job search
KW  - private employment agencies
KW  - job match quality
KW  - public employment agency
KW  - cream-skimming
KW  - selection
KW  - vouchers
        ER  -