Labor market intermediation: what it is, why it is growing, and where it is going

sum of two units developments--one institutional, one technological--are changing by what means employers identify, evaluate, and prefer job candidates. The institutional change is the rapid diffusion of "non-standard" work relationships in the United States and the OECD--particularly temporary help employment--through which firms busy workers at arms length and many times audition them for direct hire positions.

The technological change is the deployment of electronic candidate assessment a whole s which screen and vet piece of work applicants using personality tests and online background checks. one as well as the other developments underscore the growing importance of "labor market intermediation"--mechanisms or institutions that intercede between piece of work seekers and employers. A major