%0 Report
        %A Ayaita, Adam
%A Grund, Christian
%A Pütz, Lisa
        %T Job Placement via Private vs. Public Employment Agencies: Investigating Selection Effects and Job Match Quality in Germany
        %D 2021
        %8 2021 Jan
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 14024
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp14024
        %X 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.
        %K job placement
%K job search
%K private employment agencies
%K job match quality
%K public employment agency
%K cream-skimming
%K selection
%K vouchers