Title: Do on-line labor market intermediaries matter?
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.