Abstract
This study investigates the importance of coethnic employment for second-generation immigrants using data on the total population of Sweden. The analyses show that employment by parents comprises a substantial part of coethnic employment among young people. However, youth of Swedish origin in the small-business sector are employed by parents to the same extent as second-generation immigrants. Furthermore, youth of Swedish origin are much more often employed by Swedish-born employers. Therefore, we argue that mobilization of family resources and social networks is not specific to immigrants in “ethnic economies” but is rather part of a general small-business class strategy.
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