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%T Self-employment as a stepping stone to better labor market matching: a comparison between immigrants and natives %A Ulceluse, Magdalena %J Journal of Demographic Economics %N 4 %P 479-501 %V 86 %D 2020 %K Immigrants; overeducation; self-employment; skills mismatch; EU Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS) 2012 %@ 2054-0906 %~ FDB %> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-79541-0 %X 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. %C GBR %G en %9 Zeitschriftenartikel %W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org %~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info