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The Absence of the African‐American Owned Business: An Analysis of the Dynamics of Self‐Employment

Fairlie, Robert W.·1999·Journal of Labor Economics
DOI 10.1086/209914
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Estimates from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics indicate that African‐American men are one‐third as likely to be self‐employed as white men. The large discrepancy is due to a black transition rate into self‐employment that is approximately one‐half the white rate and a black transition rate out of self‐employment that is twice the white rate. Using a new variation of the Blinder‐Oaxaca decomposition technique, I find that racial differences in asset levels and probabilities of having self‐employed fathers explain a large part of the gap in the entry rate, but almost none of the gap in the exit rate.

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Authors
Fairlie, R. W.
Venue
Journal of Labor Economics
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Published
1999-01
Volume
17
Issue
1
Pages
80-108
ISSN
  • 0734-306X (ISSN-L)
  • 1537-5307
DOI
10.1086/209914
OpenAlex
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Cited by
852
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23
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journal article
Language
en
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