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Is Self-employment a Career Trap? Large-Scale Field Experiment in the Labor market. (Initial title: Discrimination Against the Entrepreneurs and Ethnic Minorities: Field Experiment in Russia)

Last registered on September 25, 2017

Pre-Trial

Trial Information

General Information

Title
Discrimination Against the Entrepreneurs and Ethinc Minorities: Field Experiment in Russia.
RCT ID
AEARCTR-0001308
Initial registration date
June 06, 2016

Initial registration date is when the trial was registered.

It corresponds to when the registration was submitted to the Registry to be reviewed for publication.

First published
June 06, 2016, 6:17 PM EDT

First published corresponds to when the trial was first made public on the Registry after being reviewed.

Last updated
September 25, 2017, 2:28 PM EDT

Last updated is the most recent time when changes to the trial's registration were published.

Locations

Region

Primary Investigator

Affiliation
University of Kassel

Other Primary Investigator(s)

PI Affiliation
University of Kassel

Additional Trial Information

Status
In development
Start date
2016-10-09
End date
2017-09-30
Secondary IDs
Abstract
We provide a correspondence field experiment to assess the labor discrimination against entrepreneurs and ethnic minorities in Russia.
External Link(s)

Registration Citation

Citation
Asanov, Igor and Maria Mavlikeeva. 2017. "Discrimination Against the Entrepreneurs and Ethinc Minorities: Field Experiment in Russia.." AEA RCT Registry. September 25. https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.1308-9.0
Former Citation
Asanov, Igor and Maria Mavlikeeva. 2017. "Discrimination Against the Entrepreneurs and Ethinc Minorities: Field Experiment in Russia.." AEA RCT Registry. September 25. https://www.socialscienceregistry.org/trials/1308/history/21767
Experimental Details

Interventions

Intervention(s)
We plan to send fictitious resume in response to 2000 real job advertisement in Russia in June - September 2016, and measure the rate of call-back as the indicator of interest in the applicant.
Intervention (Hidden)
Intervention Start Date
2017-03-14
Intervention End Date
2017-09-30

Primary Outcomes

Primary Outcomes (end points)
Call-back rate
Primary Outcomes (explanation)

Secondary Outcomes

Secondary Outcomes (end points)
Secondary Outcomes (explanation)

Experimental Design

Experimental Design
Correspondence Experiment
Experimental Design Details
I want to audit two types of the discrimination: (1) racial discrimination and (2) discrimination towards entrepreneurs. To asses racial discrimination, I plan to randomly assign the Slavic and non-Slavic sounding names to the cvs with equal quality e.g. Alexey Lebedev vs. Ansur Juraev. To elicit discrimination towards entrepreneurs, I plan to send identical CV's, expect that I randomly assign if the person was self-employed or worked for the company.


To assess if the entrepreneurial discrimination is statistically based, I plan to apply for the occupations with different skill-levels: Public relation manager and accounting clerks. Former is high skill level job and the latter is low one according to \cite{ILO2012}. It is harder to assess the candidate for the high skill level job since one needs to evaluate the qualification of candidate across a large range of duties and tasks. The assessment is especially hard if the applicant is self-employed due to the absence of evaluation by previous employees. Therefore, if the employers statistically discriminate entrepreneurs, I expect that discrimination of applicants with self-employed experience is larger for high skill level jobs as compared to low skill level one.
Randomization Method
random.org
Randomization Unit
Order of CV applications. CV/
Was the treatment clustered?
Yes

Experiment Characteristics

Sample size: planned number of clusters
2000 vacancies
Sample size: planned number of observations
8000 cv
Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms
2000 cvs with slavic sounding names and entrepreneurial experience
2000 cvs with non-slavic sounding names and entrepreneurial experience
2000 cvs with slavic sounding names and non-entrepreneurial experience
2000 cvs with non-slavic sounding names and non-entrepreneurial experience
Minimum detectable effect size for main outcomes (accounting for sample design and clustering)
IRB

Institutional Review Boards (IRBs)

IRB Name
IRB Approval Date
IRB Approval Number
Analysis Plan

Analysis Plan Documents

Post-Trial

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Intervention

Is the intervention completed?
No
Data Collection Complete
Data Publication

Data Publication

Is public data available?
No

Program Files

Program Files
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