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The self-employment of immigrants and natives in Sweden : to what extent is it the “immigrant group” or the “labour market context” that affects the self-employment of individuals in Sweden?

Ohlsson, Henrik; Broomé, Per; Bevelander, Pieter - 2010

Earlier studies on entrepreneurship and self-employment among immigrants call attention to the fact that also the …-employment ; integration ; entrepreneurship ; multilevel logistic regression …

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Ethnic enclaves, self-employment and the economic performance of refugees

Andersson, Henrik - 2018

In this paper I estimate the causal effect of ethnic enclaves on the probability of self-employment. To account for neighborhood selection I make use of a refugee dispersal program. Results indicate that larger ethnic enclaves, measured as the share of self-employed coethnics in the municipality...

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

Ahmed, Ali M.; Hammarstedt, Mats - 2018

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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 enclaves, self-employment and the economic performance of refugees

Andersson, Henrik - 2018

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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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Taxes and the choice of organizational form by entrepreneurs in Sweden

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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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

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The role of hybrid entrepreneurship in explaining multiple job holders' earnings structure

Schulz, Matthias; Urbig, Diemo; Procher, Vivien - 2018

Despite the high prevalence of hybrid entrepreneurs among multiple job holders, research on hybrid entrepreneurship and … both research streams by building on hybrid entrepreneurship theories to explain why multiple job holders frequently have … higher hourly earnings in their second job compared to their main job. Consistent with these entrepreneurship theories, our …

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