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Internet‐Based Employer Search and Vacancy Duration: Evidence from F inland
Author(s) -
Nivalainen Henna
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
labour
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.403
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1467-9914
pISSN - 1121-7081
DOI - 10.1111/labr.12027
Subject(s) - duration (music) , agency (philosophy) , the internet , service (business) , exploit , business , marketing , world wide web , computer science , computer security , sociology , art , social science , literature
This study investigates the effect of the introduction of the public employment agency's Internet‐based service on the duration of employer search. The analysis exploits the introduction of a web‐based service by the F innish E mployment A gency in O ctober 2002. The results, based on information on job vacancies announced via the public employment agency between 2002 and 2003, indicate that the introduction of the web service, in general, shortened the duration of employer search. However, we find that the introduction of the web‐based service shortened the average duration of vacancies in some regions but not in others. In addition, employers in urban areas were more likely to benefit from the introduction of the online service.