Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/240512 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
IFN Working Paper No. 1369
Publisher: 
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm
Abstract: 
In this paper, we use a randomized field experiment in Sweden to investigate how self-employment experience is valued in the labor market. We find that self-employment experience negatively impacts the probability of receiving a positive response from employers. For male applicants, this holds regardless of their ethnic background, and independently of whether we consider applicants with experience solely from self-employment, or applicants with a mix of experience from wage-employment and self-employment. For female applicants, the results are less clear-cut. Our findings provide input into the discussion about the impact of self-employment on the chances for natives and immigrants to obtain wage-employment.
Subjects: 
Self-employment
Wage-employment
Randomized experiment
Discrimination
Labor market outcomes
JEL: 
J15
J24
J71
L26
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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