TY  - JOUR
AU  - Autor,David
TI  - Wiring the Labor Market
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 7959
PY  - 2000
Y2  - October 2000
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w7959
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w7959.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
David Autor
Department of Economics
MIT, E52-371
50 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA 02142-1347
Tel: 617/258-7698
Fax: 617/253-1330
E-Mail: dautor@mit.edu
AB  - Workers and jobs are naturally heterogeneous and the quality of their interaction when paired is difficult to forecast. The Internet promises to open new channels for worker-firm communications. What are the consequences of this opening? I discuss three labor market features that may be altered: how worker-firm matches are made; how labor services are delivered; and how local markets shape labor demand. Theory predicts these developments will produce social benefits. But the gains are unlikely to be uniform and realizing them will generate novel problems. One result may be the formation of new institutions to address issues accompanying these opportunities.
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