Research
Formal Education and New Openings For Self-Employment Amongst Foreign-Born Persons in the Swedish Healthcare Sector
Authors:
Susanne Urban ,
1Institute for research on ethnicity, migration and society (REMESO), Linköping University; Institute for housing and urban research (IBF), Uppsala University, SE
Tobias Schölin
Sten K. Johnson Centre for Entrepreneurship, Lund University, SE
Abstract
This study contributes to the discussion on the value of education for self-employment among foreign-born persons in Sweden. The case of the deregulated healthcare sector is used to illustrate the importance of the acknowledgement of unaccustomed types of education with regards to a lack of access to the ordinary labour market and for starting a new business. Register-based data on all individuals in Sweden with an education in healthcare are used in the analysis. The overrepresentation of foreign-born persons amongst newly self-employed people is explained by what type of education they have, that is, a highly educated specialised occupation or educations at high and low levels that are classified as ‘other’ in the register.
How to Cite:
Urban, S. and Schölin, T., 2017. Formal Education and New Openings For Self-Employment Amongst Foreign-Born Persons in the Swedish Healthcare Sector. Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 7(1), pp.28–37. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1515/njmr-2017-0003
Published on
01 Mar 2017.
Peer Reviewed
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