Gig-jobs: stepping stones or dead ends?

Lena Hensvik and Adrian Adermon

No 15420, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

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.

Keywords: Gig-jobs; Correspondence study; Discrimination (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J23 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-11
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://cepr.org/publications/DP15420 (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Gig-jobs: Stepping stones or dead ends? (2022)
Working Paper: Gig-jobs: stepping stones or dead ends? (2020)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:15420

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
https://cepr.org/publications/DP15420

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research 33 Great Sutton Street, London EC1V 0DX, UK.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CEPR ().