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Gesine Stephan

IAB, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), and IZA, Germany

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Author

Current position

Head of Research Department “Active Labor Market Policies and Integration,” Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Nuremberg; Professor of Empirical Microeconomics, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU)

Research interest

Labor economics

Website

http://www.iab.de/123/section.aspx/Mitarbeiter/227

Positions/functions as a policy advisor

Projects for the Federal Employment Agency, the German Federal Ministry for the Labor Market and Social Affairs, and the German Federal Ministry for Families, Senior Citizens, Women and Youths

Past positions

Assistant Professor (Wissenschaftliche Assistentin), Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Hannover, Germany (1994–2004)

Qualifications

Habilitation in Economics, University of Hannover, 2000

Selected publications

  • "Private and public placement services for hard-to-place unemployed." ILR Review 69:2 (2016): 471–500 (with G. Krug).

  • "When are bonus payments for managers perceived as fair? Results from a quasi-experiment." Economics Letters 125:1 (2014): 130–133 (with M. Dütsch, C. Gückelhorn, and O. Struck).

  • "Fixing the leak: Unemployment incidence before and after a major reform of unemployment benefits in Germany." German Economic Review 15:3 (2014): 329–352 (with S. Dlugosz and R. A. Wilke).

  • “The relative effectiveness of selected active labor market programs: An empirical investigation for Germany.” The Manchester School 79:6 (2011): 1262–1293 (with A. Pahnke).

  • “The effectiveness of targeted wage subsidies for hard-to-place workers.” Applied Economics 43:10 (2011): 1209–1225 (with U. Jaenichen).

article(s)

  • Public or private job placement services — Are private ones more effective? Updated

    Outsourcing to the private sector can only be effective if the service quality can be contracted on

    Gesine Stephan, May 2024
    Expenditures on job placement and related services make up a substantial share of many countries’ gross domestic products. Contracting out to private providers is often proposed as a cost-efficient alternative to the state provision of placement services. However, the responsible state agency has to be able and willing to design and monitor sufficiently complete contracts to ensure that the private contractors deliver the desired service quality. None of the empirical evidence indicates that contracting-out is necessarily more effective or more cost-efficient than public employment services.
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