This article examines the role of Internet based labour market intermediaries in coordinating job seeker/employee interactions. A twofold analysis examines on the one hand the matchmaking tools determining applicants' access to job ads, and on the other, the content of ads posted on the web....

La comparaison d'annonces d'offres d'emploi françaises, britanniques et espagnoles diffusées sur internet met en relief plusieurs spécificités françaises. La sélection des candidats s'appuie davantage qu'ailleurs sur des présupposés liés à leur âge, à leur formation (notamment leur...

Cet article porte sur la spécialisation des canaux de recrutement qui privilégient l'embauche de certains profils plutôt que d'autres. Il part de l'hypothèse que cette spécialisation ne dépend pas seulement des démarches de recherche d'emploi, mais aussi des formes de sélection...

Web 2.0 services have experienced a very strong growth in the last 4 years, and now account for a large part of the global internet audience. The development of these services comes with a deep transformation in Web uses which may prefigure the future of media in an ultrabroadband world. The...

Two factors play a decisive role in the structuring of Internet based markets for infomediation (informational intermediation) : network externalities and information processing. First, these are examined separately. The two-sided markets literature focuses on the impact of network externalities...

This paper builds upon an empirical study of suppliers of online advertising space in France in order to highlight the plurality of quality conventions that organize the activity of market intermediaries. We show that the market is organized around two different quality conventions, the 'media'...