Pernilla Andersson Joona
Assistant Professor of Economics
Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI)
Stockholm University
SE-10691 Stockholm
SWEDEN

Phone: +46 8 163447
Fax: +46 8 154670
E-mail: pernilla.andersson.joona@sofi.su.se

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Research Interests
I am a researcher at SOFI and I am also affiliated to the Stockholm University Linnaeus Center for Integration Studies (SULCIS). My research interest includes labour economics with a special interest in migration issues and economics of self-employment.

Current Research
• Immigrant Introduction Programs – A Randomized Experiment (with Lena Nekby)
• The employees of the self-employed (with Eskil Wadensjö)

Selected Publications
• Exits from Self-Employment: Is there a Native-Immigrant Difference in Sweden?, accepted for publication in International Migration Review

• The Employees of Native and Immigrant Self-Employed, (with Eskil Wadensjö) forthcoming in Research in Labor Economics

• The Native-Immigrant Income Gap among the Self-Employed in Sweden, forthcoming in International Migration

• A Note on Immigrant Representation in Temporary Egency Work and Self-Employment, LABOUR, 2008, Vol.22, pp. 213-236 (with Eskil Wadensjö).

• Happiness and Health: Well-Being among the Self-Employed, Journal of Socio-Economics, 2008, Vol. 37, pp. 213-236

• Do the Unemployed become Successful Entrepreneurs? A Comparison between the Unemployed, Inactive and Wage-Earners, International Journal of Manpower, 2007, Vol. 28, pp. 604-626 (with Eskil Wadensjö).

Selected Publications in Swedish
• Kan introduktionsprogrammen förbättras? Utvärdering av ett randomiserat experiment - försöksverksamheten för vissa nyanlända invandrare (FNI) , Ekonomisk Debatt, nr. 6 2009 (with Lena Nekby)
• Hur är det att vara egenföretagare i Sverige?, Ekonomisk Debatt, nr. 6 2007

Working Papers
• Being employed by a co-national: A cul-de-sac or a short cut to the main road of the labour market , SULCIS Working paper 2009:11, (with Eskil Wadensjö)
• A Gender Perspective on Self-Employment Entry and Performance as Self-Employed, IZA Discussion Paper No. 3581, (with Eskil Wadensjö)
• Self-employed Immigrants in Denmark and Sweden – a Way to Economic Self-Reliance? IZA Discussion Paper No. 1130, (with Eskil Wadensjö)
• Temporary Employment Agencies: a Route for Immigrants to Enter the Labour Market? IZA Discussion Paper No. 1090, (with Eskil Wadensjö)

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• CV.pdf
• Ekonomisk Debatt 6 2007.pdf
• Ekdebatt 06 2009.pdf