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Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 46 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Self-employment.

1. 6. Integration på egen hand : En studie av invandrade kvinnoföretagare i Sverige

   Författare :Saeid Abbasian; Ali Najib; Wuokko Knocke; Sven Nordlund; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social and economic geography; Integration; Ethnicity; Gender; Self-Entrepreneurship; Immigrant women s self-entrepreneurship; Immigrant entrepreneurship; Female entrepreneurship; Working life; Immigration; Labour market; Satisfaction; Kulturgeografi; Human geography; Kulturgeografi;

   Sammanfattning : The principal aim of this thesis is to discover and analyse the motives that make immigrant women start their own businesses in Sweden and to investigate whether this is a way to achieve integration in working life. The empirical material consists of two types of interviews. LÄS MER

3. 7. When Employees Leap to Self-Employment

   Författare :Frederik Witte; Företagsekonomiska institutionen; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; self-employment entry; occupational choice; idea creation; occupation; laboratory experiment; panel data; survival analysis; data mining; model; entrepreneurship;

   Sammanfattning : The dissertation studies the determinants of self-employment entry through an economics of entrepreneurship lens, and examines two sources of data: 7 years of employer--employee matched panel data and a laboratory experiment. The results suggest that employees are more likely to take the leap to self-employment when they have their own business idea, and are employed in occupations with high wage variance. LÄS MER

4. 8. Essays on Self-employment, Happiness and International Trade

   Författare :Chizheng Miao; Erik Lindqvist; Linnéuniversitetet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; business cycle; employment; immigrant; import competition; informality; life satisfaction; local labour market; self-employment; unemployment rate; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

   Sammanfattning : The thesis consists of three empirical essays on the topics of self-employment, happiness and international trade.Essay 1 studies how immigrant self-employment entry is affected by the local business cycle in Sweden. LÄS MER

5. 9. Essays on immigrant self-employment and labour supply

   Författare :Lina Andersson; Mats Hammarstedt; Eskil Wadensjö; Växjö universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Self-employment; Intergenerational transmission; Immigrants; Labour supply; Labour force participation; Policy evaluation; Economics; Nationalekonomi; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

   Sammanfattning : This licentiate’s thesis consists of two essays on immigrant self-employment and labour supply.The first essay (co-author Mats Hammarstedt), Intergenerational transmissions in immigrant self-employment: Evidence from three generations, reviews intergenerational transmissions in immigrant self-employment over three generations. LÄS MER

7. 10. Making a living in a new country

   Författare :Mats Hammarstedt; Per-Anders Edin; Växjö universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Immigrants; second generation immigrants; income assimilation; public transfer system; self-employment; self-employment traditions; Economics; Nationalekonomi; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of six self-contained essays focusing on immigrants' maintenance in Sweden. These six essays study immigrants' incomes from different sources. The first three focus on immigrants' incomes from work and on their position in the Swedish public transfer system. LÄS MER