CAREER: Empirical Studies of Labor Market Intermediation

本研究研究了互联网和临时职业介绍所这两项发展对劳动力市场的影响。第一个项目利用一家大型国有银行的公司层面数据，探讨了职位发布和候选人筛选迁移到万维网如何影响人事结果。该银行将在2002年和2003年分阶段将其所有分支机构和职业迁移到完全在线招聘。这部分研究分析了几个问题，包括转向在线招聘如何塑造工人-公司匹配的质量，以及由于在线招聘而提高的公司层面匹配质量是否会产生匹配质量的总体变化，从而影响劳动力市场的运作。第二部分研究了临时工行业的招聘情况。上世纪90年代，临时工行业创造的就业岗位占美国总就业岗位的10%。这是低技能工人进入劳动力市场的主要渠道。这一部分研究了临时工中介的增长如何影响低技能工人的劳动力市场进步。该项目的第一阶段探讨了特定工人的求职方式选择——临时帮助机构还是直接雇佣——如何影响劳动力市场的发展。该提案的教育议程建立在这些研究组成部分之上。该项目开发了一个学期的研究生课程，探索技术变革对劳动力市场的影响。该课程将通过麻省理工学院的开放课程计划（OCW）免费提供，并由OCW提供部分支持。该项目将组织为期两天的会议，题为“劳动力市场中介机构的增长：电子和地面”，以传播有关美国和国外劳动力市场中介机构作用的学术研究。

This research studies the labor market consequences of two developments---the Internet and temporary employment agencies. The first project explores how the migration of job posting and candidate screening to the World Wide Web affects personnel outcomes using firm level data of a large national bank that will migrate all of its branches and occupations in phases to exclusively online recruiting in 2002 and 2003. This part of the research analyzes several issues including how the move to online recruiting shapes the quality of worker-firm matches and whether improvements in firm-level match quality due to online recruiting yields aggregate changes in the quality of matches and hence operation of labor markets. The second part of the research studies hiring in temporary help sector. The temporary-help industry accounted for 10% of U.S. jobs created in the 1 990s. This is a major conduit by which less-skilled workers enter the labor market. This part of the research studies how the growth of temporary help intermediation affects labor market advancement of less-skilled workers. The first phase of the project explores how the choice of job search modality for a given worker--- temporary help agency versus direct-hire employment---impacts labor market progression. The educational agenda of the proposal builds on these research components. The project develops a semester length graduate class under development that explores the consequences of technical change for the labor market. The course will be made available freely through MIT's OpenCourseWare Initiative (OCW), with partial support provided by OCW. The project will organize a two-day conference titled, "The Growth of Labor Market Intermediaries: Electronic and Terrestrial" to disseminate scholarship on the role of labor market intermediaries in the U.S. and abroad.