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.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Memorandum ; No. 10/2019
- Classification
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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
- Subject
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Unemployment
Information
Job Search
Matching
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Bhuller, Manudeep
Kostøl, Andreas Ravndal
Vigtel, Trond C.
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Veröffentlichung
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University of Oslo, Department of Economics
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Oslo
- (when)
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2019
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Bhuller, Manudeep
- Kostøl, Andreas Ravndal
- Vigtel, Trond C.
- University of Oslo, Department of Economics
Time of origin
- 2019