Functional Reviews of the Public Employment Services in the Western Balkans

10.1596/35656 ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Public Employment ◽  
Western Balkans ◽  
Employment Services ◽  
The Public

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.

Adopting the Concept of Business Models in Public Management

2017 ◽  
pp. 10-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Kożuch ◽  
Adam Jabłoński
Keyword(s):  
Business Model ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Business Management ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Public Organization ◽  
Public Employment ◽  
Employment Services ◽  
The Public ◽  
Model Based

The aim of the chapter is to propose the principles of adopting the concept of business models in public management. The scope of the work includes the specific principles of business management and public management, examined in terms of integrating the attributes of public organizations that ensure they achieve appropriate functionality. The result of scientific reflections is an attempt to design the canvas of the public organization business model based on an analogy taken from business management for the conceptualization and operationalization of the specific key attributes of the public organization business model. The justifiability of adopting the concept of a business model in the theory and practice of public organization functioning will be illustrated by the solutions used in local units of public employment services in Poland.

The Public Employment Services and Management.

ILR Review ◽  
1967 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 123
Author(s):  
Leonard P. Adams
Keyword(s):  
Public Employment ◽  
Employment Services ◽  
The Public

Long-term unemployed in Poland during the COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 17-34
Author(s):  
Ewa Flaszyńska
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Public Employment ◽  
Ability To Work ◽  
Employment Services ◽  
Unemployed People ◽  
The Public ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Unemployed

The COVID-19 pandemic has not significantly affected the increase in unemployment, including the change in the structure of long-term unemployment. Long-term unemployment increases with some delay after the recession. This article analyses the changes in the situation of long-term unemployed people in Poland before and during the COVID-2019 pandemic, presents actions taken at that time by employment and social services, and presents recommendations for the future, considering information collected from employees of poviat labour offices. In Poland, the reasons for the persistence of a relatively high level of long-term unemployment in general may include the following factors: registration in labour offices of people who, mainly for health reasons, are not ready to participate in processes of restoring the ability to work, a limited amount of funds allocated to activation of the unemployed activities and, finally, the lack of mechanisms rewarding the public employment services (PES) for bringing the long-term unemployed back to the labour market.

Bien agiter avant l’emploi. De l’activation des politiques d’emploi à l’agitation des chômeurs

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 566-588
Author(s):  
Jean-François Orianne ◽  
Laura Beuker
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Reform Process ◽  
Public Employment ◽  
Job Seekers ◽  
Employment Services ◽  
The Public ◽  
Labor Market Intermediaries ◽  
Market Intermediaries

By articulating a pragmatic approach of the labor market intermediaries with a systemic approach of the interactions at the State’s counters, the authors study the follow-up and accompaniment procedure of jobseekers in Belgium, within three public employment services. This procedure appears today as the most successful realization of a reform process, within the employment policies, that is still in progress since the middle of the 1990, under the influence of the European institutions (the European employment strategy). The authors analyze the role of the National Employment Office’s facilitators, the agents who are in charge of the jobseekers’ following-up procedure, that is the control of their effort to find a job. They also focus on the role of the employment counselors of two regional public services by showing that the employability – the official target of the activation policies – operate as a way to speak abstractly of employment and unemployment, as a way to sustain and to intensify the communication at the State’s counters. The action of the labor market intermediaries, qualified by the authors as a moral enterprise, can be characterized by its self-referential nature: to socialize the job seekers, to make them sensitive to the norms and standards of employability that are at stake in the three public employment services. According to the authors, the ‘labor market’ acts as a fiction: a simplified reconstruction of the world of work, within the political system, that serve as a readily available reference for the public action of intermediation.

Adopting the Concept of Business Models in Public Management

2018 ◽  
pp. 45-81
Author(s):  
Barbara Kożuch ◽  
Adam Jabłoński
Keyword(s):  
Business Model ◽  
Public Management ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Business Management ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Public Organization ◽  
Public Employment ◽  
Employment Services ◽  
The Public ◽  
Model Based

The aim of the chapter is to propose the principles of adopting the concept of business models in public management. The scope of the work includes the specific principles of business management and public management, examined in terms of integrating the attributes of public organizations that ensure they achieve appropriate functionality. The result of scientific reflections is an attempt to design the canvas of the public organization business model based on an analogy taken from business management for the conceptualization and operationalization of the specific key attributes of the public organization business model. The justifiability of adopting the concept of a business model in the theory and practice of public organization functioning will be illustrated by the solutions used in local units of public employment services in Poland.

scholarly journals The efficiency of public employment services: a matching frontiers approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (81) ◽  
pp. 169-183
Author(s):  
Jose F. Baños ◽  
Ana Rodriguez-Alvarez ◽  
Patricia Suarez-Cano
Keyword(s):  
Unobserved Heterogeneity ◽  
Random Parameter ◽  
Information Criteria ◽  
Public Employment ◽  
Employment Services ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
Random Parameter Model ◽  
Stochastic Matching ◽  
Office Level

Purpose This paper aims to model the efficiency of labour offices belonging to the public employment services (PESs) in Spain using a stochastic matching frontier approach. Design/methodology/approach With this aim in mind, the authors apply a random parameter model approach to control for observed and unobserved heterogeneity. Findings Results indicate that when the information criteria of the estimates are analysed, it improves by controlling both, observed and unobserved heterogeneity in the inefficiency term. Also, results suggest that counsellors improve the productivity of labour offices and that the share of unemployed skilled persons, unemployed persons aged 44 or younger, as well as the share of unemployed persons in the construction sector, all affect the technical efficiency of PESs offices. Originality/value The model extends the previous specifications in the matching literature that capture only observed heterogeneity. Moreover, as far as the authors know, it is the first paper that estimates a matching frontier for the Spanish case. Finally, the database they use is at the office level and includes the work carried out by counsellors, which is a novelty in the analysis of this type of studies at the Spanish level.

scholarly journals Trapped into Reverse Asymmetry: Public Employment Services Dealing with Employers

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
DARIO RASPANTI ◽  
TATIANA SARUIS
Keyword(s):  
Central Italy ◽  
Public Employment ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
Employment Services ◽  
Frontline Workers ◽  
The Public ◽  
Active Labour Market Policies ◽  
Active Labour ◽  
Bureaucratic Procedure ◽  
And Control

Abstract Although often neglected, the availability of employment opportunities is central to the effectiveness of active labour market policies. Employers play a crucial role in this policy field as they are both clients and co-producers of public employment services (PES). This study focuses on that relationship and reports qualitative research conducted in Tuscany (central Italy) from a street-level perspective. The findings show how public job-brokers manage this asymmetrical relationship and develop specific strategies to obtain employers’ cooperation and accomplish the PES mandate. The strategies identified here involve language adaptation, curricula “creaming”, and control of the bureaucratic procedure. These are shaped through a variable mix of four components that will be defined as relational, perceptive, technical, and tactical. This study contributes to the debate on activation policies, analysing in detail how PES frontline workers interact with employers, dealing with market logic in the public encounter.

scholarly journals Implementation of Public Employment Services in a Philippine Local Government Unit

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 133-144
Author(s):  
Elma B. Bachita ◽  
Ma. Johanna Ann R. Bayoneta
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Market Information ◽  
Public Employment ◽  
Employment Service ◽  
Employment Services ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Employment Service ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Employment Programs ◽  
Employment Agencies

The Public Employment Service Office is responsible for implementing labor market programs to promote full employment and equality of employment services. This study assessed the level of implementation of the services of the public employment service office of a component city in the areas of local employment in terms of labor market information, referral and placement, career and employment coaching, provision of livelihood and employment programs, and special employment in terms of reintegration assistance, employability enhancement, pre-employment counseling, and other services as assessed by local and overseas jobseekers and local business and overseas employment agencies.  It also investigated the challenges encountered by the respondents in availing these services. This descriptive-comparative study used a researcher-made survey instrument administered to randomly selected local and overseas job seekers and local and overseas business and employment agencies.  Using descriptive and inferential analyses, the study yielded a very high level of implementation which implies that the services by the PESO promoted job generation and addressed unemployment although, a significant difference was revealed in the implementation of labor market information and self-employment programs and services. The study recommended the enactment of local laws to enhance employment facilitation.

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