Self-employment as a stepping stone to better labour market matching: a comparison between immigrants and natives
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Keywords
self-employment; immigrants; skills mismatch; overeducation;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EUR-2018-07-16 (Microeconomic European Issues)
- NEP-LAB-2018-07-16 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-MIG-2018-07-16 (Economics of Human Migration)
- NEP-URE-2018-07-16 (Urban & Real Estate Economics)
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