The Impact of City Contracting Set-Asides on Black Self-Employment and Employment

Aaron K Chatterji, Kenneth Y Chay and Robert Fairlie

Santa Cruz Department of Economics, Working Paper Series from Department of Economics, UC Santa Cruz

Abstract: In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimatetheir impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African-American men. Black business ownership rates increased significantly after program initiation, with the black-white gap falling three percentage points. The evidence that the racial gap in employment also fell is less clear as it is depends on assumptions about the continuation of pre-existing trends. The black gains were concentrated in industries heavily affected by set-asides and mostly benefited the better educated.

Keywords: Business; Arts and Humanities; entrepreneurship; affirmative action; self-employment; minorities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-02-01
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Journal Article: The Impact of City Contracting Set-Asides on Black Self-Employment and Employment (2014)
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Working Paper: The Impact of City Contracting Set-Asides on Black Self-Employment and Employment (2013)
Working Paper: The Impact of City Contracting Set-Asides on Black Self-Employment and Employment (2013)
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