Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/104645 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 8555
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
With the growth of the Internet, online job portals have become an important medium for job matching. This paper focuses on methodological issues arising from the usage of online job vacancy data and voluntary web-based surveys to analyse the labour market. In addition to providing a comprehensive review of the literature based on online data, we highlight the advantages and possible disadvantages of using online data and suggest strategies for overcoming selected methodological issues. We underline the difficulties in adjusting for representativeness of online job vacancies, but nevertheless argue that this rich source of data should be exploited.
Subjects: 
internet
job
labour market
matching
methodology
occupation
online
representativeness
vacancy
JEL: 
E4
J2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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