Black–White gap in self-employment. Does intra-race heterogeneity exist?

Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere and Willie Belton

Small Business Economics, 2013, vol. 41, issue 1, 25-39

Abstract: Past research on the determinants of self-employment in the United States has emphasized the importance of ethnicity. In particular, self-employment rates for Blacks lag far behind those of other racial groups for comparable individuals. This research examines two related issues: Does the dummy variable coefficient associated with the Black–White self-employment gap exhibit intra-race heterogeneity? Second, does this variable have diminished or increased impact across generations? We decompose the sample into subgroups and find that the size of the Black–White self-employment gap varies within subgroups of African-Americans. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. 2013

Keywords: Self-employment; Black–White gap; Ethnicity; Race; Disparity in exposure; L26; J1; J4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/s11187-011-9403-y

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