Arbeitspapier

Internet Job Search and Unemployment Durations

After decades of stability, the technologies used by workers to locate new jobs began to change rapidly with the diffusion of internet access in the late 1990?s. Which types of persons incorporated the internet into their job search strategy, and did searching for work on line help these workers find new jobs faster? We address these questions using measures of internet job search derived from the December 1998 and August 2000 CPS Computer and Internet Supplements, matched with job search outcomes from subsequent CPS files. We find that internet searchers are positively selected on observables, but negatively selected on unobservables. A beneficial (unemployment-duration reducing) causal effect of internet job search is consistent with our estimates only if negative selection on unobservables is especially strong, in other words only if the population of on-line resumes is strongly adversely selected.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 613

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
Thema
unemployment
duration
hazard models
internet
job search
Arbeitsuche
Internet
Arbeitslosigkeit
Dauer
Schätzung
Vereinigte Staaten

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Kuhn, Peter
Skuterud, Mikal
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2002

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Kuhn, Peter
  • Skuterud, Mikal
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2002

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