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Labor market integration of low-educated refugees: RCT evidence from an ambitious integration program in Sweden
Dahlberg, Matz; Egebark, Johan; Vikman, Ulrika; Özcan, … - 2020
This paper evaluates an ambitious and newly designed program for increased integration in Sweden. The purpose of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012385079
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Financial capital and immigrant self-employment: evidence from a Swedish reform
Aldén, Lina; Hammarstedt, Mats; Miao, Chizheng - 2020
in Sweden in 2010 which reduced capital requirements for limited liability companies. For both men and women, the reform …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012292424
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Political hedgehogs : the geographical sorting of refugees in Sweden
Wennström, Johan; Öner, Özge - 2019
This study shows that in Sweden, contrary to other European countries, refugees have been disproportionately placed in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011981288
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Getting the first job : size and quality of ethnic enclaves for refugee labor market entry
Klaesson, Johan; Öner, Özge; Pennerstorfer, Dieter - 2018
This article analyses the relationship between the size and the quality of ethnic enclaves on immigrants' labour market integration. Using exogenously defined grid cells to delineate neighbourhoods we find robust empirical evidence that the employment rate of the respective immigrant group in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943439
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Self-employed immigrants and their employees : evidence from Swedish employer-employee data
Hammarstedt, Mats; Miao, Chizheng - 2018
We present a study of immigrant self-employment in Sweden using the recent matched employer-employee data from 2014. We … for their time immigration to Sweden. High self-employment rates are found for male immigrants from the Middle East …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011911143
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011775558
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011900301
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Using markets to measure pre-war threat assessments : the Nordic Countries facing World War II
Waldenström, Daniel (contributor);  … - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003385786
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Characteristics and performance of new firms and spinoffs in Sweden
Andersson, Martin; Klepper, Steven - 2012 - Date of this version: 7 February 2012
over a decade. Comparisons to Denmark, Brazil, and the U.S. suggest that the environment for new firm formation in Sweden …We analyze the rate of formation, the characteristics, and the performance of different types of new firms in Sweden … single owner. -- Sweden ; spinoffs ; new firm formation ; entrepreneurship ; performance ; employment growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530957
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Trade, reallocations and productivity : a bridge between theory and data in Öresund
Akerman, Anders - 2009
based in Malmö raise exports to Denmark substantially, mostly by firms selecting into exporting, and the aggregate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003829108