Exits from self-employment: Is there a native-immigrant difference in Sweden?

International Migration Review

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 539-559

  Joona, Pernilla Andersson ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMIGRANT; INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION; LABOR MARKET; SELF EMPLOYMENT; UNEMPLOYMENT;

SWEDEN;

EID: 77956251438     PISSN: 01979183     EISSN: 17477379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-7379.2010.00817.x     Document Type: Article

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