Arbeitspapier
How Broadband Internet Affects Labor Market Matching
How the internet affects job matching is not well understood due to a lack of data on job vacancies and quasi-experimental variation in internet use. This paper helps fill this gap using plausibly exogenous roll-out of broadband infrastructure in Norway, and comprehensive data on recruiters, vacancies and job seekers. We document that broadband expansions increased online vacancy-postings and lowered the average duration of a vacancy and the share of establishments with unfilled vacancies. These changes led to higher job-finding rates and starting wages and more stable employment relationships after an unemployment-spell. Consequently, our calculations suggest that the steady-state unemployment rate fell by as much as one-fifth.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 8022
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
Labor Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs
Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
Information and Internet Services; Computer Software
- Thema
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unemployment
information
job search
matching
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Bhuller, Manudeep
Kostol, Andreas R.
Vigtel, Trond C.
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
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Munich
- (wann)
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2019
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Bhuller, Manudeep
- Kostol, Andreas R.
- Vigtel, Trond C.
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Entstanden
- 2019