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Financial Capital and Immigrant Self-Employment: Evidence from a Swedish Reform

Aldén, Lina; Hammarstedt, Mats; Miao, Chizheng - 2020

We study the role of capital requirement in immigrants' self-employment decision with the help of a reform implemented in Sweden in 2010 which reduced capital requirements for limited liability companies. For both men and women, the reform increased both the probability of starting a limited...

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Ethnic Differences in Long-Term Self-Employment

Aldén, Lina; Bastani, Spencer; Hammarstedt, Mats; … - 2020

We study ethnic differences in long-term self-employment in Sweden combining population-wide register data and a unique survey targeting a large representative sample of the total population of long-term self-employed. Using the registers, we analyze the evolution of labor and capital income...

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Ethnic Background and the Value of Self-Employment Experience: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Aldén, Lina; Bastani, Spencer; Hammarstedt, Mats - 2020

In this paper, we use a randomized field experiment in Sweden to investigate how self-employment experience is valued in the labor market. We find that self-employment experience negatively impacts the probability of receiving a positive response from employers. For male applicants, this holds...

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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...

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Financial Capital and Immigrant Self-Employment : Evidence from a Swedish Reform

Aldén, Lina; Hammarstedt, Mats; Miao, Chizheng - 2021

We study the role of capital requirement in immigrants’ self-employment decision with the help of a reform implemented in Sweden in 2010 which reduced capital requirements for limited liability companies. For both men and women the reform increased both the probability of starting a limited...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324300

Ethnic Enclaves and Self-employment among Middle Eastern Immigrants in Sweden – Ethnic Capital or Enclave Size?

Andersson, Martin - 2020

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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Billionaires

Leeson, Peter; Sanandaji, Tino - 2012

Existing studies of entrepreneurship focus on entrepreneurs whose individual contribution to wealth creation is …

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Taxation and Entrepreneurship in a Welfare State

Stenkula, Mikael - 2009

Does tax policy affect the rate of self-employment in a modern welfare state? This question is analyzed empirically based on Swedish data for the entire post-war period. Available tax data indicate that payroll taxes have had a negative influence on the unincorporated rate of self-employment,...

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Using Self-employment as Proxy for Entrepreneurship: Some Empirical Caveats

Bjuggren, Carl Magnus; Johansson, Dan; Stenkula, Mikael - 2010

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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Do Women Have a Less Entrepreneurial Personality?

Bengtsson, Ola; Sanandaji, Tino; Johannesson, Magnus - 2012

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-employment. …

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