| Sumario: | The Internet transforms labor markets, altering the way workers look for jobs and the way firms recruit employees. In 1998, 15 percent of unemployed jobseekers used the Internet to look for jobs, as did half of all jobseekers with online access from home. Internet search rates exceeded those of such traditional methods as the services of private employment agencies, contacting friends or relatives, and using the register of unions or professional bodies. The writers examine the frequency and incidence of Internet job search among U.S. workers by race, gender, and other demographic traits, the location of the job search, and the relation between Internet search and traditional job search methods; Internet job search data are from a special supplement to the December 1998 Current Population Survey, which asked respondents about computer and Internet use.
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