LinkedIn(to) Job Opportunities: Experimental Evidence from Job Readiness Training

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Wheeler, Laurel; Garlick, Robert; Johnson, Eric; Shaw, Patrick; Gargano, Marissa
• 署名单位: University of Alberta; Duke University; Research Triangle Institute
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7782
• DOI: 10.1257/app.20200025
• 发表日期: 2022
• 页码: 101-125
• 关键词: unemployment; youth; inference; selection; PROGRAMS; search; IMPACT; sites

摘要

Online professional networking platforms are widely used and may help workers to search for and obtain jobs. We run the first randomized evaluation of training work seekers to join and use one of the largest platforms, Linkedln. Raining increases the end-of-program employment rate by 10 percent (7 percentage points), and this effect persists for at least 12 months. The available employment, platform use, and job search data suggest that employment effects are explained by work seekers using the platform to acquire information about prospective employers and perhaps by work seekers accessing referrals and conveying information to prospective employers on the platform.