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Field
Intervention (Public)
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Before
To measure the differential treatment of refugees, we conduct a matched pair email correspondence test, in which each employer receives an email indicating the applicant is Czech and an email indicating the applicant is non-Czech, that is, either a refugee (i.e., with either Ukrainian or Russian ethnicity) or a permanent resident (i.e., with either Ukrainian or Russian citizenship). These two emails are sent in a randomized order (e.g. sometimes the first email is from the Czech applicant, other times it is from the non-Czech applicant), a few days apart.
Every answer from employers is going to be followed by a courteous email, where the fictitious applicant thanks for the response and adds that she has found another job already. This is done to minimize the employer's inconvenience.
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After
To measure the differential treatment of refugees, we conduct a matched pair email correspondence test, in which each employer receives an email indicating the applicant is Czech and an email indicating the applicant is non-Czech, that is, either a refugee (i.e., with either Ukrainian or Russian ethnicity) or a permanent resident (i.e., with either Ukrainian or Russian citizenship). These two emails are sent in a randomized order (e.g. sometimes the first email is from the Czech applicant, other times it is from the non-Czech applicant), a few days apart.
Every answer from employers is going to be followed by a courteous email, where the fictitious applicant thanks for the response and adds that she has found another job already. This is done to minimize the employer's inconvenience.
Given the protraction of the conflict and the civil unrest caused by sanctions consequences (e.g. increase in the gas price), we are prolonging the experiment, while expecting that this new scenario could worsen the attitudes toward refugees.
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