TY  - JOUR
AU  - Stevenson, Betsey
TI  - The Internet and Job Search
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 13886
PY  - 2008
Y2  - March 2008
DO  - 10.3386/w13886
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w13886
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w13886.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Betsey Stevenson
University of Michigan
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
5224 Weill Hall
735 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-3091
Tel: 734/615-9595
E-Mail: betseys@umich.edu
M1  - published as Betsey Stevenson. "The Internet and Job Search," 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 examines how the Internet has impacted job search behavior. Examining those who use the Internet for job seeking purposes, I show that the vast majority are currently employed. These employed job seekers are more likely to leave their current employer and are more likely to make an employment-to-employment transition. Examining the unemployed, I find that over the past ten years the variety of job search methods used by the unemployed has increased and job search behavior has become more extensive. Furthermore, the Internet has led to reallocation of effort among various job search activities.
ER  -