TY  - JOUR
AU  - Bagues, Manuel F
AU  - Labini, Mauro Sylos
TI  - Do On-Line Labor Market Intermediaries Matter? The Impact of AlmaLaurea on the University-to-Work Transition
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 13621
PY  - 2007
Y2  - November 2007
DO  - 10.3386/w13621
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w13621
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w13621.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Manuel Bagues
University of Warwick
Department of Economics 
Coventry CV4 7AL
United Kingdom
E-Mail: manuel.bagues@gmail.com

Mauro Sylos Labini
University of Pisa - Department of Political Scien
Via Serafini 3
56123
Italy
E-Mail: syloslabini@gmail.com
M1  - published as Manuel F. Bagues, Mauro Sylos Labini. "Do Online Labor Market Intermediaries Matter? The Impact of "AlmaLaurea" on the University-to-Work Transition," in David H. Autor, editor, "Studies of Labor Market Intermediation " University of Chicago Press (2009)

M3  - presented at "Labor Market Intermediation Conf.", May 17-18, 2007
AB  - This paper evaluates the impact of the availability of electronic labor markets on the university-to-work transition. In particular, we analyze the effect of the intermediation activity carried on by the inter-university consortium, AlmaLaurea, on graduates' labor market outcomes. The different timing of universities' enrollment in AlmaLaurea allows us to apply the difference-in-differences method to a repeated cross section data set. If the usual assumption concerning parallel outcomes holds, AlmaLaurea reduces the individual unemployment probability and improves matching quality. Interestingly, we also find that on-line intermediaries foster graduates' geographic mobility.
ER  -