Abstract
Public employment offices match job seekers and vacancies. The effectiveness of this matching process depends on the way these offices handle the job vacancies. This article studies the matching process by analyzing the effect of different mediation methods on the duration of job vacancies. The results suggest that intensive mediation reduces average vacancy duration, indicating that public employment offices can improve the matching process.
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The author wishes to thank the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment for its financial support and the use of the public employment office data, and wishes to thak Cees Gorter, Wim Groot, Gusta Renes and Geert Ridder for their comments on a previous version of the article. The author also wishes to thank Wim v.d. Bij for his research assistance.