Search for dissertations about: "immigrant businesses"
Found 5 swedish dissertations containing the words immigrant businesses.
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1. Immigrant Entrepreneurship In Sweden : Challenges And Opportunities Related To Business Development
Abstract : Background: At a time of continued volatility and uncertainty, there is a growing need to tackle the numerous political-social challenges and embrace the opportunities presented by demographic shifts caused by mass immigration. The migration crisis, which peaked in the European Union during 2015 and 2016, with over a million immigrants, has sparked renewed discussions among scholars, politicians, and the public about the costs and benefits of immigration. READ MORE
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2. Voices of entrepreneurship and small business : immigrant enterprises in Kista, Stockholm
Abstract : Immigrant and ethnic entrepreneurship is a subject that has received increased attention in recent years. Many immigrants or people with ethnic backgrounds different from the majority population run their own businesses, in Sweden as well as in most countries and contexts in the world. READ MORE
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3. Immigrant entrepreneurs in a changing institutional context : a mixed embeddedness approach
Abstract : Immigrant entrepreneurs are known to be heterogeneous in terms of available resources and entrepreneurial outcomes. However, this heterogeneity, as well as immigrant entrepreneurs’ embeddedness in social networks and the institutional context of high-income welfare states such as Sweden, remains understudied. READ MORE
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4. Empirical Essays on Wage Setting and Immigrant Labor Market Opportunities
Abstract : This thesis consists of three self-contained essays.Essay 1: This essay estimates wage assimilation among non-western immigrants in Sweden, controlling for selection into employment by including individual fixed effects. READ MORE
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5. Life in the labyrinth : a reflexive exploration of research and politics
Abstract : This thesis is about exploring the politics within and around research. The starting point is a European project which ran from late 1997 to the end of 2000. READ MORE