Changes in the organisational setting

3 Federal employment agency job centres for the short-term unemployed 

The local PES offices are foremost responsible for the unemployment insurance benefit (UB I) recipients. Within this regime the Federal Employment Service (BA) 

The use of market mechanisms by outsourcing placement services to external providers through placement vouchers or via subsidised temporary work (PSA) has been implemented as a complementary option to improve efficiency and effectiveness of core employment services (Konle-Seidl 2005a). The need for more individualised services for hard-to-place unemployed persons, however, opens up broader options for contracting out employment and welfare service provision. In this sense the BA started a new pilot in July 2007 to test successful context criteria for a better involvement of private agencies. The step to a further privatisation of the German PES takes the British Employment Zones as an example. 

Profiling of jobseekers constitutes an essential element in the BA reform process. It has been applied since 2005. Beyond the diagnostic function, profiling in 

Market clients are considered to be job ready and to have the best chance of finding employment 

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