Job search methods and outcomes

Short Term Gain, Long Term Pain Informal Job Search Methods and Post-Displacement Outcomes

This paper examines the role of informal job search methods on the labour market outcomes of displaced workers. Informal job search methods could alleviate short-term labour market difficulties of displaced workers by providing information on job opportunities, allowing them to signal their productivity and may mitigate wage losses through better post-displacement job matching. However if displ...

Job search methods: Internet versus traditional

In the current “e-commerce” boom, much attention has been paid to how the Internet is transforming product markets. At the same time, the Internet also is transforming labor markets, altering the way workers look for jobs, and the way firms recruit workers. More than 2,000 Internet job search sites now exist, yet little is known of their effects on labor markets. What percentages of unemployed ...

Internet Job Search and Employment Outcomes: An Instrumental Variables Approach

Internet and Traditional Job Search Methods , 1994 - 1999

In December 1998, 15 percent of unemployed jobseekers, and 7 percent of employed persons used the internet to look for a new job. Conditioning on internet access from home, internet job search rates rise to 50 percent of unemployed jobseekers and 15 percent of the employed. Only 9 percent of black, and 7 percent of Hispanic unemployed jobseekers conduct on-line job search, compared to 16 percen...

A Structural Analysis of Job Search Methods and Subsequent Wages

In most studies on individual labor market transitions, the search process leading to job offers is a black box. In this paper we specify and estimate a search model that distinguishes between formal (applications) and informal (referrals) search methods. Job offers can be obtained by either method, and the corresponding wage offer distributions are allowed to differ. The model allows for searc...