terms of wages, working hours and working environment. But we are studying something that is in focus for the general debate …

employees' conditions in terms of wages, working hours and working environment. However, we study something that is in focus for …

to refugees who come now in terms of finding employment depends, among other things, on the labor market position of the … former migrants in Sweden. Do they have work and if so what kind of work? In which parts of Sweden do they live? In this …

dynamics and the factors influencing entry and exit rates from self-employment. Using a large panel data set for Sweden, this … employment status, we find that those who entered from unemployment or inactivity face a higher risk of returning to one of these …Research on self-employment has increased during recent years and particular attention has been paid to self-employment …

We study immigrants in temporary employment agencies in Sweden using a unique data set that covers all aged 16-64 who … were employed by temporary employment agencies (TEAs) in Sweden in November 1999, with information on their employment … the lowest education and those with higher education. The mobility between employment status (employed in a TEA, other …

themselves in the labour market, the employment rate is low and the hourly wages are generally lower than what could be expected … data-sets to study self-employment among immigrants in Denmark and Sweden. The three main issues covered are 1) if the …

fixed-period contracts, contracts which only guarantee employment for a specified period of time. Some demographic groups … two groups outside the core of full-time employees are analyzed: those employed in temporary employment agencies, and the … employment agencies has increased in Western Europe as a consequence of deregulation of this sector in the 1990s, and the …

studied. There are several good reasons for this, for example that incomes from self-employment are not reported to the same … average income from self-employment compared to the average wage income. This is the case when we study incomes for immigrants … sectors than self-employed natives, and the incomes from self-employment differ from the incomes of the wage earners. In this …

employment decisions for both self-employed natives and immigrants. …