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 …

find a positive, yet heterogeneous, effect of trade on immigrant employment but no effect on immigrant wages. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

of industry. We use the survey data to gain further insights into these differences, and show that immigrant self …