SPATIAL ASSIMILATION AND SELF-EMPLOYMENT: THE CASE OF BLACK AMERICANS

Gregory B. Fairchild ()
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Gregory B. Fairchild: Graduate School of Business Administration, P. O. Box 6550, FOB 185, Charlottesville, VA 22906-6550, USA

Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship (JDE), 2008, vol. 13, issue 03, 269-291

Abstract: Residential segregation has played a central role in theories of minority entrepreneurship. This study integrates two theories in the extant literature on minorities and urban areas (spatial assimilation theory and labor market disadvantage theory); and tests a hypothesis on the self-employment likelihood of black Americans. Descriptive statistics indicate a negative relationship between black-white segregation and increasing socioeconomic status (SES), although blacks remain considerably residentially segregated from whites of similar SES. The model results indicate that, after controlling for a number of factors, segregation of high SES blacks and whites in a metropolitan area is associated with higher likelihood of black self-employment.

Keywords: Segregation; self-employment; assimilation; blacks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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