Matching workers and jobs online

Like many forms of economic exchange, the process of matching workers to jobs has rapidly migrated online in the last two decades. Thus, understanding how online labor matching mechanisms work; how they affect economic outcomes like employment, wages, and inequality; and learning how to take advantages of the ‘big data’ that are generated by online markets all have important implications for the future of labor.

Some key questions include: effectiveness of the new internet based job search methods, how workers and firms look for each other online, efficiency of matching, how to used data from online markets to study new and old labor market questions.