Gig-jobs: Stepping stones or dead ends?

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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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Working Paper ; No. 2020:23

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Labor Demand ; Labor Discrimination
• Subject: Gig-jobs ; correspondence study ; discrimination

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Adermon, Adrian ; Hensvik, Lena
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU)
• (where): Uppsala
• (when): 2020

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/246032
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET