Jobless and Burnt Out: Digital Inequality and Online Access to the Labor Market

Stefano De Marco, Guillaume Dumont, Ellen Johanna Helsper, Alejandro Díaz-Guerra, Mirko Antino, Alfredo Rodríguez-Muñoz and José-Luis Martínez-Cantos
Additional contact information
Stefano De Marco: Department of Sociology and Communication, University of Salamanca, Spain
Guillaume Dumont: OCE Research Center, Emlyon Business School, France
Ellen Johanna Helsper: Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Alejandro Díaz-Guerra: Department of Psychobiology and Methodology for Behavioral Sciences, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Mirko Antino: Department of Psychobiology and Methodology for Behavioral Sciences, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Alfredo Rodríguez-Muñoz: Department of Social, Work and Differential Psychology, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
José-Luis Martínez-Cantos: Department of Applied, Public and Political Economy, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain

Social Inclusion, 2023, vol. 11, issue 4, 184-197

Abstract: This article examines how inequalities in digital skills shape the outcomes of online job‐seeking processes. Building on a representative survey of Spanish job seekers, we show that people with high digital skill levels have a greater probability of securing a job online, because of their ability to create a coherent profile and make their application visible. Additionally, it is less probable that they will experience burnout during this process than job seekers with low digital skill levels. Given the concentration of digital skills amongst people with high levels of material and digital resources, we conclude that the internet enforces existing material and health inequalities.

Keywords: burnout; digital exclusion; digital inequality; digital skills; online job‐seeking; Spain (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/article/view/7017 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cog:socinc:v11:y:2023:i:4:p:184-197

DOI: 10.17645/si.v11i4.7017

Access Statistics for this article

Social Inclusion is currently edited by Mariana Pires

More articles in Social Inclusion from Cogitatio Press
Bibliographic data for series maintained by António Vieira () and IT Department ().