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Self-employment as a stepping stone to better labor market matching: a comparison between immigrants and natives
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Abstract The paper investigates the relation between overeducation and self-employment, in a comparative analysis between immigrants and natives. Using the EU Labour Force Survey for the year 2012 and controlling for a list of demographic characteristics and general characteristics of 30 destination countrie... mehr
The paper investigates the relation between overeducation and self-employment, in a comparative analysis between immigrants and natives. Using the EU Labour Force Survey for the year 2012 and controlling for a list of demographic characteristics and general characteristics of 30 destination countries, it finds that the likelihood of being overeducated decreases for self-employed immigrants, with inconclusive results for self-employed natives. The results shed light on the extent to which immigrants adjust to labor market imperfections and barriers to employment and might help explain the higher incidence of self-employment that immigrants exhibit, when compared to natives. This is the first study to systematically study the nexus between overeducation and self-employment in a comparative framework. Moreover, the paper tests the robustness of the results by employing two different measures of overeducation, contributing to the literature of the measurement of overeducation.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Migrant; Einwanderung; berufliche Selbständigkeit; Selbständiger; Überqualifikation; Bildung; Bildungsniveau; Inländer; Vergleich; vergleichende Forschung
Klassifikation
Berufsforschung, Berufssoziologie
Arbeitsmarktforschung
Freie Schlagwörter
Immigrants; overeducation; self-employment; skills mismatch; EU Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS) 2012
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2020
Seitenangabe
S. 479-501
Zeitschriftentitel
Journal of Demographic Economics, 86 (2020) 4
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1017/dem.2020.1
ISSN
2054-0906
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)