Black White Gap in Self-Employment in US

Ruth Uwaifo Oyeler, Willie Belton The Institute for the Study of Labor April 22, 2020

Summary

This paper explores the Black-White self-employment gap by looking at evidence of Black-White gap in self employment, race differences in Black-White self employment existence, and cohort differences accounting for the differing sizes of the Black-white self-employment gap. Key findings include new information on within race differences and cohort differences in African-American's self-employment.

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