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, both for their employment and entrepreneurship probability. Whereas residential segregation has a more uniformly …
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, as they suggest that in order to increase local employment levels, municipalities should target high tech employers with …
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employment rate of the respective immigrant group in the vicinity (as a measure of enclave quality) facilitates labour market … integration of new immigrants. The influence of the overall employment rate and the share of co-nationals in the neighbourhood …
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We present a field experiment conducted in order to explore the existence of ethnic discrimination in contact with public authorities. Two fictitious parents, one with a Swedish-sounding name and one with an Arabic-sounding name, sent email inquiries to all Swedish municipalities asking for...
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immigrants from the Middle East. We demonstrate a robust tendency for people to leave non-employment for self-employment if many …
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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 … consider applicants with experience solely from self-employment, or applicants with a mix of experience from wage-employment …
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minorities reside in more segregated areas, have worse outcomes (in terms of income) but are not necessarily worse off in terms …
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We study ethnic differences in long-term self-employment in Sweden combining population-wide register data and a unique … analyze the evolution of labor and capital income during the first ten years following self-employment entry. We find that …, while ethnic differences in labor income become smaller over time, ethnic differences in capital income grow stronger during …
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affected. -- Income redistribution ; ethnic heterogeneity , immigration …
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