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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... view more
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.... view less
Keywords
migrant; immigration; self-employment; self-employed person; over qualification; education; level of education; native citizen; comparison; comparative research
Classification
Occupational Research, Occupational Sociology
Labor Market Research
Free Keywords
Immigrants; overeducation; self-employment; skills mismatch; EU Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS) 2012
Document language
English
Publication Year
2020
Page/Pages
p. 479-501
Journal
Journal of Demographic Economics, 86 (2020) 4
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1017/dem.2020.1
ISSN
2054-0906
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed