The use of internet data for labor research

Do employers prefer migrant workers? Evidence from a Chinese job board

We study urban, private sector Chinese employers’ preferences between workers with and without a local permanent residence permit (hukou) using callback information from an Internet job board. We find that these ...

Authors: Peter Kuhn and Kailing Shen

Citation: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2015 4:22

Content type: Original article Published on: 27 November 2015
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Task implementation heterogeneity and wage dispersion

Wage dispersion among observationally similar workers is still only partially unexplained by economists from both a theoretical and an empirical point of view. Given that jobs can be broken down into tasks, na...

Authors: Stefano Visintin, Kea Tijdens, Stephanie Steinmetz and Pablo de Pedraza

Citation: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2015 4:20

Content type: Original article Published on: 5 November 2015
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Using online vacancies and web surveys to analyse the labour market: a methodological inquiry

This paper discusses methodological issues arising from the use of online job vacancy data and voluntary web-based surveys to analyse the labour market. We highlight the advantages and possible disadvantages o...

Authors: Lucia Mýtna Kureková, Miroslav Beblavý and Anna Thum-Thysen

Citation: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2015 4:18

Content type: Original article Published on: 25 September 2015
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