Arbeitspapier

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

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 regardless of their ethnic background, and independently of whether we consider applicants with experience solely from self-employment, or applicants with a mix of experience from wage-employment and self-employment. For female applicants, the results are less clear-cut. Our findings provide input into the discussion about the impact of self-employment on the chances for natives and immigrants to obtain wage-employment.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: IFN Working Paper ; No. 1369

Classification
Wirtschaft
Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Labor Discrimination
Entrepreneurship
Subject
Self-employment
Wage-employment
Randomized experiment
Discrimination
Labor market outcomes

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Aldén, Lina
Bastani, Spencer
Hammarstedt, Mats
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
(where)
Stockholm
(when)
2020

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Aldén, Lina
  • Bastani, Spencer
  • Hammarstedt, Mats
  • Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)

Time of origin

  • 2020

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