Search Results - "Hammarstedt, Mats"

Self-employed immigrants and their employees: evidence from Swedish employer-employee data by Hammarstedt, Mats, Miao, Chizheng

“…We present a study of the employees of self-employed immigrants with unincorporated firms in Sweden using matched employer-employee data from 2014…”
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Immigrant-native differences in long-term self-employment by Aldén, Lina, Bastani, Spencer, Hammarstedt, Mats, Miao, Chizheng

“…We study immigrant-native differences in long-term self-employment in Sweden combining population-wide register data and a unique survey targeting a large…”
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Discrimination in the rental housing market: A field experiment on the Internet by Ahmed, Ali M., Hammarstedt, Mats

“…This paper presents a field experiment on discrimination in the housing market, using the Internet as a research platform. The procedure involved our creating…”
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Sexual Orientation and Job Satisfaction: Survey-Based Evidence from Sweden by Aldén, Lina, Hammarstedt, Mats, Swahnberg, Hanna

“…We present results from a unique nationwide survey conducted in Sweden on sexual orientation and job satisfaction. Our results show that gay men are more…”
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Perceptions of gay, lesbian, and heterosexual domestic violence among undergraduates in Sweden by Ahmed, Ali, Aldén, Lina, Hammarstedt, Mats

“…"An experimental study of perceptions about gay, lesbian, and heterosexual domestic violence in Sweden. Undergraduate students (N=1.009) read one of eight…”
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Customer and Worker Discrimination Against Gay and Lesbian Business Owners: A Web-Based Experiment among Students in Sweden by Ahmed, Ali, Hammarstedt, Mats

“…We examined customer and worker discrimination against gay and lesbian business owners using a web-based experiment conducted at a Swedish university campus…”
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Perceptions of Gay, Lesbian, and Heterosexual Domestic Violence Among Undergraduates in Sweden by Ahmed, Ali M, Aldén, Lina, Hammarstedt, Mats

“…An experimental study of perceptions about gay, lesbian, and heterosexual domestic violence in Sweden. Undergraduate students (N = 1009) read one of eight…”
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Immigrants' Relative Earnings in Sweden - A Cohort Analysis by Hammarstedt, Mats, Shukur, Ghazi

“…  This paper examines the earnings assimilation of immigrants in Sweden by applying a quantile regression approach on pooled data during the period 1990–99…”
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Low‐skilled jobs, language proficiency, and job opportunities for refugees: an experimental study by Ek, Simon, Hammarstedt, Mats, Skedinger, Per

“…In a field experiment, we study the causal effects of previous experience and language skills when newly arrived Syrian refugees in Sweden apply for…”
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Intergenerational transmissions in immigrant self-employment: Evidence from three generations by Andersson, Lina, Hammarstedt, Mats

“…This paper presents the first study of intergenerational transmissions in immigrant selfemployment across three generations. Based on a Swedish data set, the…”
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Discrimination in the Credit Market? Access to Financial Capital among Self-employed Immigrants by Aldén, Lina, Hammarstedt, Mats

“…Summary We present results from a unique combination of survey and register data regarding access to financial capital conducted among immigrants who are…”
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Ethnic discrimination in contacts with public authorities: a correspondence test among Swedish municipalities by Ahmed, Ali, Hammarstedt, Mats

“…We present a field experiment conducted in order to explore the existence of ethnic discrimination in contact with public authorities. Two fictitious parents,…”
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Intergenerational Mobility and the Earnings Position of First-, Second-, and Third-Generation Immigrants by Hammarstedt, Mats

“…SUMMARY Immigrants' labour market situation has been in the focus of research in economics as well as in other sciences, and the labour market situation of…”
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Ethnic Segregation, Tipping Behavior, and Native Residential Mobility by Aldén, Lina, Hammarstedt, Mats, Neuman, Emma

“…We study tipping behavior in residential mobility of the native population in Sweden between 1990 and 2007. Using regression discontinuity methods, we find…”
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Ethnic Enclaves, Networks and Self-Employment among Middle Eastern Immigrants in Sweden by Andersson, Lina, Hammarstedt, Mats

“…The proportion of immigrants from countries in the Middle East living in Sweden has increased since the 1970s, and it is a well‐known fact that immigrants from…”
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Are Gay Men and Lesbians Discriminated against in the Hiring Process? by Ahmed, Ali M., Andersson, Lina, Hammarstedt, Mats

“…This article presents the first field experiment on sexual orientation discrimination in the hiring process in the Swedish labor market. Job applications were…”
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All about balance? A test of the Jack-of-all-Trades theory using military enlistment data by Aldén, Lina, Hammarstedt, Mats, Neuman, Emma

“…•We test the Jack-of-all-Trades theory using Swedish military enlistment data.•Ability balance is measured based on tests of cognitive and non-cognitive…”
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Effect of Registered Partnership on Labor Earnings and Fertility for Same-Sex Couples: Evidence From Swedish Register Data by Aldén, Lina, Edlund, Lena, Hammarstedt, Mats, Mueller-Smith, Michael

“…The expansion of legal rights to same-sex couples is afoot in a number of Western countries. The effects of this rollout are not only important in their own…”
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Ethnic Background and the Value of Self‐Employment Experience: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment by Aldén, Lina, Bastani, Spencer, Hammarstedt, Mats

“…We use a randomized field experiment in Sweden to investigate how self‐employment experience is valued in the labour market. Our results show that…”
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Do schools discriminate against children with disabilities? A field experiment in Sweden by Ahmed, Ali, Hammarstedt, Mats, Karlsson, Karl

“…This article presents the results of a field experiment in which fictitious parents of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and type 1…”
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