Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/243457 
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Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Policy Paper No. 171
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Many European countries have implemented policies to revive their domestic service sectors. A common goal of these reforms has been to create employment for disadvantaged groups on the labor market. I study Sweden, where a 50% tax deduction on labor costs for domestic services was introduced in 2007. I use detailed administrative data to report the shares of three disadvantaged groups among small business owners and employees in tax-subsidized firms. I then compare these shares to all private firms and to firms in two industrial subsectors with a predominance of elementary occupations. I find that the shares of refugees and long-term unemployed are of similar sizes in the subsidized firms as in the private sector as a whole. For the third group-people with a low level of education-I find a larger share in the subsidized firms compared to the average private firm, but a smaller share compared to the other industries with elementary occupations. An extended analysis suggests that labor immigration to the subsidized sector from other EU countries may have crowded out the disadvantaged groups. EU immigrants operate half of all subsidized firms in Sweden's largest cities and employ mainly other EU immigrants in their businesses.
Subjects: 
domestic services
tax deduction
employment
refugee immigrants
JEL: 
J21
J23
J61
H2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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