Migration and online job search: A gravity model approach

Mariano Mamertino and Tara Sinclair

Economics Letters, 2019, vol. 181, issue C, 51-53

Abstract: In this study we introduce a new potential data source on migration intentions in the form of online job seekers actively searching for a job in a country other than their current location. We characterize job seeker interest across national borders by measuring user behavior on a major job search website. We show the job search data are strongly positively related to available OECD migration data and also find that in a gravity model both the determinants and the relative importance of the determinants for job search are similar to those in the literature for realized migration.

Keywords: International migration; Labor mobility; Online labor markets; European union (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 J4 J6 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2019.05.005

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