Internet Job Search, Employment, and Wage Growth : Evidence from the Arab Republic of Egypt
This paper assesses the impact of Internet job search on employment in the Arab Republic of Egypt, the most populous country in the Middle East and North Africa region. Using panel data from the 2012 and 2018 rounds of the Egypt Labor Market Panel...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2020
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/395231585232470518/Internet-Job-Search-Employment-and-Wage-Growth-Evidence-from-the-Arab-Republic-of-Egypt http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33518 |
| Summary: | This paper assesses the impact of
Internet job search on employment in the Arab Republic of
Egypt, the most populous country in the Middle East and
North Africa region. Using panel data from the 2012 and 2018
rounds of the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey, the paper
examines the impact of Internet job search by the unemployed
on their employment prospects. It also examines the impact
of Internet job search by employed job seekers on their wage
growth, as well as the impact of digitalization at the
workplace on earnings. Accounting for individual and
geographical unobserved heterogeneity using panel data, the
results suggest that Internet job search is an effective job
search method, as it increases the probability that the
unemployed -- and in particular unemployed men -- will find
employment. Auxiliary placebo regressions confirm that
preexisting trends in labor market outcomes are not driving
the results. However, Internet job search by employed job
seekers does not appear to have an impact on their wage
growth, nor does digitalization at the workplace affect the
wage growth of employed individuals. |
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