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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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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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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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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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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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Billionaire entrepreneurs : a systematic analysis

Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino - 2013

measures to proxy for entrepreneurship often gives rise to misleading inferences. Interestingly the rate of billionaire …, more venture capital investment and lower regulatory burdens have higher entrepreneurship rates but less self …-employment. -- Entrepreneurship ; Innovation ; Institutions ; Regulation ; Self-employment …

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