Self-Employment among In-Movers and Stayers in Rural Areas: Insights from Swedish Register and Survey Data

Lina Aldén, Mats Hammarstedt () and Per Skedinger
Additional contact information
Mats Hammarstedt: Linnaeus University, Postal: and Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm, Sweden, ,, https://www.ifn.se/en/researchers/affiliated-researchers/mats-hammarstedt/

No 1487, Working Paper Series from Research Institute of Industrial Economics

Abstract: Our use of longitudinal register data combined with a unique survey allows us to offer a more comprehensive picture of rural self-employment than in previous studies. We find that self-employed in rural settings are more likely than those in metropolitan regions to employ others, but self-employment rates in rural areas are lower. There is substantial heterogeneity among the rural self-employed; in-movers are quite different from stayers in terms of their perceptions of the conditions necessary for business success and their employment practices. Policy initiatives aimed at fostering development in rural areas should consider these distinctions.

Keywords: Self-Employment; Labor Mobility; Regional Development; Rural Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J24 J61 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 49 pages
Date: 2024-04-26
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ent, nep-geo, nep-lab, nep-mig, nep-sbm and nep-ure
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.ifn.se/wfiles/wp/wp1487.pdf Full text (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hhs:iuiwop:1487

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Paper Series from Research Institute of Industrial Economics Research Institute of Industrial Economics, Box 55665, SE-102 15 Stockholm, Sweden. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Elisabeth Gustafsson ().