Open this publication in new window or tab >>2022 (English)In: Small Business Economics, ISSN 0921-898X, E-ISSN 1573-0913, Vol. 58, no 3, p. 1661-1697Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
We study immigrant-native 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-employment. Using the registers, we analyze the evolution of labor and capital incomes during the first 10 years following self-employment entry. We find that immigrant-native differences in labor income become smaller, whereas immigrant-native differences in capital income grow stronger, over the course of self-employment. These findings are robust to controlling for factors such as organizational form and type of industry. We use the survey data to gain further insights into immigrant-native differences among the long-term self-employed, and show that immigrant self-employed experience more problems and earn less, but work harder than native self-employed. They also have a less personal relation to their customers, do not enjoy their work as much as natives, and appear to have different perspectives on self-employment in general.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer, 2022
National Category
Economics
Research subject
Economy, Economics
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-100722 (URN)10.1007/s11187-021-00462-z (DOI)000671536300001 ()2-s2.0-85109943020 (Scopus ID)
Funder
The Kamprad Family Foundation
2021-01-292021-01-292022-11-16Bibliographically approved