Testing the home-country self-employment hypothesis on immigrants in Sweden

Mats Hammarstedt () and Ghazi Shukur

Applied Economics Letters, 2009, vol. 16, issue 7, 745-748

Abstract: This article tests the home-country self-employment hypothesis on immigrants in Sweden. The results show that the self-employment rates vary between different immigrant groups but we find no support for the home-country self-employment hypothesis using traditional estimation methods. However, when applying quantile regression method we find such evidence when testing results from the 90th quantile. This indicates that home-country self-employment traditions are important for the self-employment decision among immigrant groups with high self-employment rates in Sweden. Furthermore, the result underlines the importance of utilizing robust estimation methods when the home-country self-employment hypothesis is tested.

Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1080/13504850701221907

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