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.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IFN Working Paper ; No. 1369
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Labor Discrimination
Entrepreneurship
- Subject
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Self-employment
Wage-employment
Randomized experiment
Discrimination
Labor market outcomes
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Aldén, Lina
Bastani, Spencer
Hammarstedt, Mats
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
- (where)
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Stockholm
- (when)
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2020
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Aldén, Lina
- Bastani, Spencer
- Hammarstedt, Mats
- Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
Time of origin
- 2020