Correspondence Study on the Labour Market in Russia.

We provide a correspondence study in Russia to investigate treatment of various groups on the labor market (the detailed description is reported in hidden section).

2020-03-16

2021-04-30

Call-back rate: Calls and e-mail answers

1. Call-back and e-mail answers
2. Call-back
3. E-mail answers

To access the attitude towards certain groups in the labor market, we send fictitious resumes in respond to real job openings, varying the characteristics of CVs.

A.Self-employment Status Part of Experiment

We provide the correspondence experiment in Russia to understand the job prospects of native and ethnic self-employed applicants.
Within the framework of the experiment we send about 5.800 CV's in response to 1.450 vacancies. We cross randomize if (1) a person was self-employed or worked for a company and (2)a person has a Slavic or ethnic minorities sounding name. We apply for the similar occupations with different skill-levels: High (Skill level 4) or low(skill level 2) skill level job according to International Standard Classication of Occupations (2008). Namely, we send resume on the next vacancies in Skill level 4: Finance Managers (1211), Advertising and Public Relations Managers (1222), Information and Communications Technology Services Managers (1330). In skill level 2: Accounting Associate Professionals (3313); Conference and Event Planners (3332); Information and Communications Technology Operations Technicians (3511).

B. Ethnic Minority Status Part of Experiment (INTRODUCED DUE TO THE COVID-19 OUTBREAK)

We conduct a correspondence study in Russia to understand the job prospects of ethnic majority and ethnic minority applicants from 08 April 2020 to April 2021. Within the framework of the experiment, we send about 6.400 CV's in response to 1.600 vacancies. We cross randomize if (1) a person has an ethnic majority or ethnic minority sounding name and (2) a person has previous work experience or is recently graduated. We apply for similar occupations with different skill levels according to the International Standard Classification of Occupations (2008). Namely, we send applications for the following occupations: Real Estate Agents and Property Managers (3334, skill level 3); Advertising and Marketing Professionals (2431, skill level 4); Messengers, Package Deliverers and Luggage Porters (9621, skill level 1), Receptionists (4226, skill level 2); Answering Service Operators (4223, skill level 2); General Office Clerks (4110, skill level 2).

C. CHANGES in TRIAL due to the COVID-19 outbreak.

In rapid response to the COVID-19 outbreak, we introduced a sub-part of an experiment that focuses explicitly on the ethnic-minority discrimination replicating the design of our previous study( https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.1308-22.200000000000003.) Moreover, we decided to focus on the ethnic part of the experiment due to the relevancy of the issue and because in the self-employment Status Part of the Experiment we observed extremely low-callback (probably due to the low demand for the professions in this part of the experiment during a pandemic) deeming self-employment status part of experiment underpowered.

Computer platform

Vacancy. We send different types of CV for the same vacancy in random order.

Yes

3.100 vacancies (12 400 resumes)

About 12.200 resumes 1.450 vacancies (5 800 resumes) in the Self-employment Status Part of Experiment 1.600 vacancies (6.400 resumes) in Ethnic Minority Status Part of Experiment

We send 1.450 resumes per sub-treatment in the Self-employment Status Part of Experiment
We send 1.600 resumes per sub-treatment in the Ethnic Minority Status Part of the Experiment