The Impact of Employment Web Sites' Traffic on Unemployment: A Cross Country Comparison
This addresses the gap in understanding how online job platforms affect unemployment, which is relevant for policymakers and economists, though it appears incremental as it focuses on correlation rather than causation.
The study investigated the relationship between employment website traffic and unemployment rates across 32 European countries, finding a strong correlation between the two.
Although employment web sites have recently become the main source for re- cruitment and selection process, the relation between those sites and unemploy- ment rates is seldom addressed. Deriving data from 32 countries and 427 web sites, this study explores the correlation between unemployment rates of European countries and the attractiveness of country specific employment web sites. It also compares the changes in unemployment rates and traffic on all the aforementioned web sites. The results showed that there is a strong correlation between web sites traffic and unemployment rates.