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We present a study of immigrant self-employment in Sweden using the recent matched employer-employee data from 2014. We … find large variations in self-employment rates among immigrant groups as well as between immigrants with different points …
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find a positive, yet heterogeneous, effect of trade on immigrant employment but no effect on immigrant wages …
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We present a study of immigrant self-employment in Sweden using the recent matched employer-employee data from 2014. We … find large variations in self-employment rates among immigrant groups as well as between immigrants with different points …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011917111
We employ geocoded data to explore the effects of ethnic enclaves in Swedishcities on the propensity of Middle Eastern immigrants to use businessownership as a vehicle to transcend from labor market outsiders to insiders. Wedemonstrate a robust tendency for immigrants to leave non-employment...
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responded to the reform by changing corporate form whereas immigrant men, especially those originating from the Middle East … immigrant women. Finally, it is the wage employed who start a limited liability business in the post-reform period, underlining …
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Existing studies of entrepreneurship focus on entrepreneurs whose individual contribution to wealth creation is …
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Research on entrepreneurship has received an increased amount of interest in recent years, with self-employment being … used as the most common proxy for "entrepreneurship" in empirical studies. However, there are various ways of defining self …
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Public policy is currently shifting from SME policy towards entrepreneurship policy, which supports entrepreneurship … public policy affects the prevalence and performance of both productive entrepreneurship and so-called high …-impact entrepreneurship in turn. Although varying contexts and economic systems make prescribing a general panacea impossible, a number of …
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Our paper presents an empirical analysis of entrepreneurial well-being using a large-scale longitudinal household survey from the UK that tracks almost 50,000 individuals across seven waves over the period 2009-2017, as well as a number of exploratory case studies. We contribute to the existing...
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find a positive, yet heterogeneous, effect of trade on immigrant employment but no effect on immigrant wages. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012615411