Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/246032 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2020:23
Publisher: 
Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU), Uppsala
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.
Subjects: 
Gig-jobs
correspondence study
discrimination
JEL: 
J23
J71
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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