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

Applied Economics Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 745-748

  Hammarstedt, Mats ^a   Shukur, Ghazi ^a  

^a LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ESTIMATION METHOD; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; IMMIGRANT; SELF EMPLOYMENT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN;

EID: 67650264319     PISSN: 13504851     EISSN: 14664291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504850701221907     Document Type: Article

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