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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012615427
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012615429
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012615437
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011917071
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011917108
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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
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Entrepreneurship in post-Soviet Cuba : self-employed workers and non-agricultural cooperatives
González-Corzo, Mario A. - In: International journal of entrepreneurship and small … 41 (2020) 2, pp. 197-226
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012509811
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Learning from the Omagongo Cultural Festival about entrepreneurship and self-employment in Namibia
April, Wilfred Isak; Itenge, Daniel Ileni; Namalenga, David - In: International journal of entrepreneurship and small … 46 (2022) 1, pp. 1-15
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013455102
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Two sides to the evasion: The pirate bay and the interdependencies of evasive entrepreneurship
Elert, Niklas; Henrekson, Magnus; Lundblad, Joakim - 2016
conceptual model to illustrate and map the interdependence between evasive entrepreneurship and the regulatory response it …, yet its founders became convicted criminals because of it. Applying the evasive entrepreneurship framework to this case … improves our understanding of the relationship between policymaking and entrepreneurship in the digital age, and is a first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011442487
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The Political Economy of Entrepreneurship
Douhan, Robin; Henrekson, Magnus - 2007
entrepreneurship/small business, public choice and new institutional economics. The entrepreneurial function is shown to depend … influenced by entrepreneurs. A typology of entrepreneurship is developed to further our understanding of the bilateral effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320051