The Internet and Job Search

Betsey Stevenson

NBER Working Paper No. 13886
Issued in March 2008

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"Examining those who use the Internet for job seeking purposes, I show that the vast majority are currently employed... 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".