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The association between occupational status and health has been taken to reveal the presence of health inequalities shaped by occupational status. However, that interpretation assumes no influence of health status in explaining occupational standing. This paper documents evidence of...
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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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find large variations in self-employment rates among immigrant groups as well as between immigrants with different points … for their time immigration to Sweden. High self-employment rates are found for male immigrants from the Middle East …. Immigrants are less likely than natives to have employees in their firms but after controlling for firm characteristics we find …
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done for different cohorts of immigrants from Africa and Asia and for different types of businesses, unincorporated and … incorporated firms. We find that immigrants have lower business earnings and higher exit rates from self-employment than natives …, which is in line with previous research. It also turns out that the period in which the immigrants arrived to Sweden and the …
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We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate … immigrants from that country. By hiring immigrants, a firm may access foreign knowledge and networks needed to overcome …, we estimate the causal effects of a firm's bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We …
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We study the role of capital requirement in immigrants' self-employment decision with the help of a reform implemented … self-employed prior to the reform. We found that the reform affected immigrants and natives differently. Natives primarily … is true for both immigrants and natives. In contrast, more marginalised groups (i.e. unemployed immigrants), do not …
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This paper is the first to estimate the effects of minimum wages on the unemployment of refugee immigrants. The …
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This paper estimates the intergenerational transmission of trust by studying second generation immigrants in 29 …
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