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Among unemployed individuals in 2001 who reported having access to the Internet, age differences in the tendency to use the Internet to search for jobs are only minor.  For example, 67.7% of unemployed individuals aged 30-35 reported using the Internet for their job search, compared to 68.2% for those aged 40-45 and 71.2% of those aged 50-55. (Table 2, p. 6)

Stevenson, B. (2008). The internet and job search (Working Paper No. 13886). Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research. Retrieved April 8, 2008, from http://papers.nber.org/papers/W13886 

This report examines "Internet-based job search using data from the 1998, 2001, and 2003 CPS Computer and Internet Use Supplements."

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