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Immigrant self-employment in turbulent times
Linnaeus University, School of Business and Economics, Department of Economics and Statistics (NS). Research Institute of Industrial Economics, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9433-1959
Linnaeus University, School of Business and Economics, Department of Economics and Statistics (NS). Research Institute of Industrial Economics, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4945-1577
2025 (English)In: Small Business Economics, ISSN 0921-898X, E-ISSN 1573-0913Article in journal (Refereed) Epub ahead of print
Abstract [en]

We examine immigrant self-employment in Sweden during the turbulent decade 2011–2021. This is done for different cohorts of immigrants from Africa and Asia and for unincorporated and incorporated firms. Immigrants have lower business earnings and higher exit rates from self-employment than natives, which is in line with previous research. The period in which the immigrants arrived in Sweden and the type of business they are engaged in have important implications for outcomes. In most cases, outcomes are more favorable for those who came to Sweden up to the turn of the millennium, and less so for the latest arrivals. Even so, a closer look at outcomes by organizational form reveals that immigrants who arrived during 2011–2021 suffered less in terms of lower business earnings compared to earlier cohorts if they were in incorporated instead of unincorporated self-employment. Switching organizational form is not associated with catching up on business earnings for immigrant self-employed vis-à-vis Swedish-born.

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Springer Nature, 2025.
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Economics
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Economy, Economics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-137065DOI: 10.1007/s11187-025-01032-3ISI: 001448747100001OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-137065DiVA, id: diva2:1941554
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The Jan Wallander and Tom Hedelius FoundationAvailable from: 2025-02-28 Created: 2025-02-28 Last updated: 2025-04-30

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