Studies of Labor Market Intermediation [Hardcover]

From the traditional craft hiring hall to the Web site Monster.com, a multitude of institutions exist to facilitate the matching of workers with firms. The diversity of such Labor Market Intermediaries (LMIs) encompasses criminal records providers, public employment offices, labor unions, temporary help agencies, and centralized medical residency matches.Studies of Labor Market Intermediationanalyzes how these third-party actors intercede where workers and firms meet, thereby aiding, impeding, and, in some cases, exploiting the matching process.

By building a conceptual foundation for analyzing the roles that these understudied economic actors serve in the labor market, this volume develops both a qualitative and quantitative sense of their significance to market operation and worker welfare. Cross-national in scope,Studies of Labor Market Intermediationis distinctive in coalescing research on a set of market institutions that are typically treated as isolated entities, thus setting a research agenda for analyzing the changing shape of employment in an era of rapid globalization and technological change.

David H. Autoris professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Introduction
David H. Autor

I. Reducing Search Costs

1. Jobs Online

Alice O. Nakamura, Kathryn L. Shaw, Richard B. Freeman, Emi Nakamura, and Amanda Pyman

2. The Internet and Job Search

Betsey Stevenson

II. Mitigating Adverse Selection

3. Effect of Employer Access to Criminal History Data on the Labor Market Outcomes of Ex-Offenders and Non-Offenders

Keith Finlay

4. Do On-Line Labor Market Intermediaries Matter? The Impact ofAlmaLaureaon the University-to-Work Transition

Manuel F. Bagues and Mauro Sylos Labini

5. Private Deception and the Rise of l#c