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Ethnic enclaves and immigrant self-employment : a neighborhood analysis of enclave size and quality

Andersson, Martin; Larsson, Johan P.; Öner, Özge - 2017

We explore the effects of neighborhood-level ethnic enclaves on the propensity of immigrants to use business ownership as a vehicle to transcend from labor market outsiders to insiders. We exploit an exogenously partitioned grid of geocoded 1-by-1 km squares to approximate neighborhoods, and...

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Customer discrimination in the fast food market? : experimental evidence from a Swedish university campus

Ahmed, Ali M.; Hammarstedt, Mats - 2018

This paper studies customer discrimination against fictive male and female food truck owners with Arabic names on a Swedish University campus using a web-based experiment.Students at a Swedish university campus were asked to participate in a market survey and state if they think it is a good...

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Ethnic background and the value of self-employment experience: evidence from a randomized field experiment

Aldén, Lina; Bastani, Spencer; Hammarstedt, Mats - 2020

In this paper, we use a randomized field experiment in Sweden to investigate how self-employment experience is valued in the labor market. We find that self-employment experience negatively impacts the probability of receiving a positive response from employers. For male applicants, this holds...

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Financial capital and immigrant self-employment: evidence from a Swedish reform

Aldén, Lina; Hammarstedt, Mats; Miao, Chizheng - 2020

We study the role of capital requirement in immigrants' self-employment decision with the help of a reform implemented in Sweden in 2010 which reduced capital requirements for limited liability companies. For both men and women, the reform increased both the probability of starting a limited...

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Ethnic differences in long term self-employment

Aldén, Lina; Bastani, Spencer; Hammarstedt, Mats; … - 2020

We study ethnic differences in long-term self-employment in Sweden combining population-wide register data and a unique survey targeting a large representative sample of the total population of long-term self-employed. Using the registers, we analyze the evolution of labor and capital income...

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Immigrant self-employment in turbulent times : a decade with refugee crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic

Hammarstedt, Mats; Skedinger, Per - 2024

We examine immigrant self-employment in Sweden during 2011-2021 - a turbulent decade with a large influx of refugees into the country and the outbreak of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Four outcome variables are investigated: the probability of self-employment, the probability of entry into and...

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Taxes and the choice of organizational form by entrepreneurs in Sweden : [This working paper is an extended and indepth version of the analysis in IFN working paper no 907]

Edmark, Karin; Gordon, Roger H. - 2013

This paper estimates the role of both tax and non-tax determinants in the choice in Sweden to be a closely-held corporation vs. a proprietorship, using individual data for 2004 to 2008 on owners of closely-held businesses. While lower-income individuals face relatively neutral incentives, higher...

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Do women have a less entrepreneurial personality?

Bengtsson, Ola; Sanandaji, Tino; Johannesson, Magnus - 2012

A striking fact about entrepreneurship is that the number of male entrepreneurs greatly exceed the number of female … personality traits can explain a modest part of the gender gap in entrepreneurship: our estimates suggest 21%-32%. We also …-entrepreneurial self-employed. This finding highlights that entrepreneurship is distinct from other types of self …

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The impact of COVID-19 on small business owners : continued losses and the partial rebound in May 2020

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020

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The impact of Covid-19 on small business owners : evidence of early-stage losses from the April 2020 Current Population Survey

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020

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