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Replication Data for: Landing the First Job: The Value of Intermediaries in Online Hiring

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Title Replication Data for: Landing the First Job: The Value of Intermediaries in Online Hiring
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/6LH7PO
 
Creator Stanton, Christopher
Thomas, Catherine
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description Online markets for remote labor services allow workers and firms to contract with each other directly. Despite this, intermediaries -- called outsourcing agencies -- have emerged in these markets. This paper shows that agencies signal to employers that inexperienced workers are high quality. Workers affiliated with an agency have substantially higher job-finding probabilities and wages at the beginning of their careers compared to similar workers without an agency affiliation. This advantage declines after high-quality non-affiliated workers receive good public feedback scores. The results indicate that intermediaries have arisen endogenously to permit a more efficient allocation of workers to jobs.
 
Subject Business and Management
Labor market intermediation
Offshoring
 
Language English
 
Contributor Riggle, Christine