Longterm effects on entrepreneurship from Swedish Return Migrants

You have reached the blog of the Project “The long run effects of returnees from the emigration to America on Swedish entrepreneurship“, generously funded by the Ragnar Söderberg Foundation. You find a description of the project at Ragnar Söderberg (Swedish and English) and a movie produced by the Foundation here.

The basic aim of the Project is to collect historical records on the 1.4 million emigrants and 200,000 returnees, link this to business records, and together with modern data, improve our understanding of how returnees impacted on Entrepreneurship in Swedish regions.

Project participants are: Olof Ejermo (PI), Kerstin Enflo, Björn Eriksson, Kirti John, Erik Prawitz, Mårten Viberg, Jing Xiao.

We will report on developments in the Project and the blog functions as a Communication channel for our research results.