Invandrarföretagare : om drivkrafterna bakom valet att starta eget
(2002)School of Social Work
- Abstract
- The main purpose of this essay was to find out what motivates immigrants to start their own business. We decided to study the local immigrant-owned pizzarestaurants in Halmstad, Sweden. We choose to conduct a questionnaire and a couple of interviews, which was a complementary to extend our understanding. We wanted to get their view of motivations behind the choice to run their own business. We also asked them questions about their working hours, financing, education and so on. With this essay we got confirmed that the situation on the labour market is especially bad for immigrants. The only alternatives to avoid unemployment were for many of them to run their own business. Even though many have university degrees and working skills in... (More)
- The main purpose of this essay was to find out what motivates immigrants to start their own business. We decided to study the local immigrant-owned pizzarestaurants in Halmstad, Sweden. We choose to conduct a questionnaire and a couple of interviews, which was a complementary to extend our understanding. We wanted to get their view of motivations behind the choice to run their own business. We also asked them questions about their working hours, financing, education and so on. With this essay we got confirmed that the situation on the labour market is especially bad for immigrants. The only alternatives to avoid unemployment were for many of them to run their own business. Even though many have university degrees and working skills in other categories (fields) than the restaurant business they found it almost impossible to get a normal job. The life as a self-employed person turned out to be a life with long working hours. In spite of all this it was only a few that considered the profit to be more than good. (Less)
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- author
- Baumann, Lena and Hedman, Linda
- supervisor
- organization
- year
- 2002
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Social problems and welfare, national insurance, Sociala problem, social välfärd, socialförsäkring
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 1359028
- date added to LUP
- 2004-11-08 00:00:00
- date last changed
- 2004-11-08 00:00:00
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abstract = {{The main purpose of this essay was to find out what motivates immigrants to start their own business. We decided to study the local immigrant-owned pizzarestaurants in Halmstad, Sweden. We choose to conduct a questionnaire and a couple of interviews, which was a complementary to extend our understanding. We wanted to get their view of motivations behind the choice to run their own business. We also asked them questions about their working hours, financing, education and so on. With this essay we got confirmed that the situation on the labour market is especially bad for immigrants. The only alternatives to avoid unemployment were for many of them to run their own business. Even though many have university degrees and working skills in other categories (fields) than the restaurant business they found it almost impossible to get a normal job. The life as a self-employed person turned out to be a life with long working hours. In spite of all this it was only a few that considered the profit to be more than good.}},
author = {{Baumann, Lena and Hedman, Linda}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Invandrarföretagare : om drivkrafterna bakom valet att starta eget}},
year = {{2002}},
}