Do Digital Information Technologies Help Unemployed Job Seekers Find a Job? Evidence from the Broadband Internet Expansion in Germany
This paper studies effects of the introduction of a new digital mass medium on reemployment of unemployed job seekers. We combine data on high-speed (broadband) internet availability at the local level with individual register data on the unemployed in Germany. We address endogeneity by exploiting technological peculiarities in the network that affected the roll-out of high-speed internet. The results show that high-speed internet improves reemployment rates after the first months of the unemployment spell. This is confirmed by complementary analysis with individual survey data suggesting that online job search leads to additional formal job interviews after a few months in unemployment
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2018
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Authors: | Gürtzgen, Nicole |
Other Persons: | Diegmann, André (contributor) ; Pohlan, Laura (contributor) ; van den Berg, Gerard J. (contributor) |
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[2018]: [S.l.] : SSRN |
Subject: | Arbeitsuche | Job search | Deutschland | Germany | Internet | Breitbandkommunikation | Broadband communications | Informationstechnik | Information technology | Arbeitslosigkeit | Unemployment |
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Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource (62 p) |
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Series: | IZA Discussion Paper ; No. 11555 |
Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Other identifiers: | 10.2139/ssrn.3193309 [DOI] |
Classification: | J64 - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search ; K42 - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law ; H40 - Publicly Provided Goods. General ; L96 - Telecommunications ; c26 |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012917098