AEA RCT Registry

Field	Before	After
Trial Title	Non-traditional work arrangements: stepping stones or dead ends?	Gig Jobs: stepping stones or dead ends?
Trial Status	in_development	completed
Last Published	March 16, 2018 11:53 AM	September 14, 2021 07:33 AM
Study Withdrawn		No
Intervention Completion Date		October 18, 2018
Data Collection Complete		Yes
Final Sample Size: Number of Clusters (Unit of Randomization)		3,329 vacancies
Was attrition correlated with treatment status?		No
Final Sample Size: Total Number of Observations		9,987 applications
Final Sample Size (or Number of Clusters) by Treatment Arms		1,666 Swedish name-unemployed; 1,681 Swedish name-gig experience; 1,629 Swedish name-traditional experience 1,663 Arabic name -unemployed; 1,648 Arabic name-gig experience; 1,700 Arabic name-traditional experience
Is there a restricted access data set available on request?		Yes
Restricted Data Contact		[email protected]
Program Files		No
Data Collection Completion Date		October 18, 2018
Is data available for public use?		No
Keyword(s)	Labor	Labor
Building on Existing Work		No

Field	Before	After
Paper Abstract		How useful is work experience from the gig economy for labor market entrants searching for traditional wage jobs? We conducted a correspondence study in Sweden, comparing callback rates for recent high school graduates with (i) gig-experience, (ii) traditional experience, and (iii) unemployment history. We also study heterogeneous responses with respect to perceived foreign background. Our findings suggest that gig-experience is more valuable than unemployment, but less useful than traditional experience for majority applicants. Strikingly however, no form of labor market experience increases the callback rate for minority workers.
Paper Citation		Hensvik, Lena, and Adrian Adermon. "Gig-jobs: stepping stones or dead ends?." (2020). IFAU Working Paper 2020:23
Paper URL		https://www.ifau.se/Forskning/Publikationer/Working-papers/2020/gig-jobs-stepping-stones-or-dead-ends/

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