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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 … immigrants from the Middle East. We demonstrate a robust tendency for people to leave non-employment for self-employment if many … not the scale, but the quality of local ethnic enclaves that influence labor market outcomes for immigrants. …

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Ethnic enclaves and labor market outcomes : what matters most: neighborhood, city or region?

Klaesson, Johan; Öner, Özge - 2018

The relevance of residential segregation and ethnic enclaves for labor market sorting of immigrants has been … segregation and ethnic concentration on various labor market outcomes.The geographical size of the area at which segregation and … segregation should not be used interchangeably, and more importantly, the geographical area at which they are measured relates …

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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 of new immigrants. The influence of the overall employment rate and the share of co-nationals in the neighbourhood … enclave in helping new immigrants finding jobs. …

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Assimilation patterns in cities

Satō, Yasuhiro; Zenou, Yves - 2019 - revised November 5, 2019

We develop a model in which ethnic minorities can either assimilate to the majority's norm or reject it by trading off higher productivity and wages with a greater social distance to their culture of origin. We show that "oppositional" ethnic minorities reside in more segregated areas, have...

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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 … self-employed prior to the reform. We found that the reform affected immigrants and natives differently. Natives primarily …

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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...

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Trust issues : evidence from second generation immigrants

Ljunge, Martin - 2012

This paper estimates the intergenerational transmission of trust by studying second generation immigrants in 29 … adjustment to the trust levels in Southern and Eastern Europe is fast. -- intergenerational transmission ; trust ; immigrants … ; cultural transmission ; integration of immigrants …

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Inventors among the "impoverished sophisticate"

Berger, Thor; Prawitz, Erik - 2023

patent records linked to census data. We document that the rise of innovation during Sweden's industrialization can largely …

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Long-run effects of technological change : the impact of automation and robots on intergenerational mobility

Heyman, Fredrik; Olsson, Martin - 2022

mobility. Using detailed data on all individuals and firms registered in Sweden, we study whether parental exposure to robots …

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Intergenerational top income mobility in Sweden : capitalist dynasties in the land of equal opportunity?

Björklund, Anders (contributor); Roine, Jesper (contributor) - 2008

. Using a large dataset of matched father-son pairs in Sweden we are able to obtain results for fractions as small as 0 … top percentile of the population. Our results suggest that Sweden, well-known for its egalitarian achievements, is a …

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