Do on-line labor market intermediaries matter?
Subtitle: the impact of almalaurea on the university-to-work transition
By: Manuel F. Bagues, Mauro Sylos Labini.
Contributors: Sylos Labini, Mauro.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 13621; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 13621.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "This paper evaluates the impact of the availability of electronic labor markets on the university-to-work transition.  In particular, we analyze the effect of the intermediation activity carried on by the inter-university consortium, AlmaLaurea, on graduates' labor market outcomes.  The different timing of universities' enrolment in AlmaLaurea allows us to apply the difference-in-differences method to a repeated cross section data set.  If the usual assumption concerning parallel outcomes holds, AlmaLaurea reduces the individual unemployment probability and improves matching quality.  Interestingly, we also find that on-line intermediaries foster graduates' geographic mobility"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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