Trends in Self-Employment among White and Black Men during the Twentieth Century

By R. Fairlie, Bruce D. Meyer. 2000

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Drug Dealing and Legitimate Self‐Employment (2002, background): “In addition, models by Rees and Shah (1986) and Blanchflower 1 The white male self-employment rate declined from 16.0% in 1910 to 10.0% in 1970 before rising to 11.4% by 1990 (Fairlie and Meyer 2000).”
• Individual Determinants of Self-Employment Entry – What Do We Really Know? (2013, unknown): “…Hammarstedt, 2011; Fritsch et al., 2012); and (ii) why self-employment rates differ among different groups of immigrants (Borjas and Bronars, 1989; Fairlie and Meyer, 2000; Levie, 2007; Vinogradov and Kolvereid, 2007; Clark and Drinkwater, 2010; Andersson et al., 2013; Oyelere and Belton, 2012;…”
• Culture and entrepreneurship? African American and immigrant self-employment in the United States (2008, methodology): “While low levels of education, low asset levels, smaller probabilities of having self-employed parents, demographic trends, and discrimination all have been cited as reasons for the limited level of entrepreneurship in the African American community, much of the “social capital” literature addressin”
• Why Are Black‐Owned Businesses Less Successful than White‐Owned Businesses? The Role of Families, Inheritances, and Business Human Capital (2007, background): “The 3 to 1 ratio of white to black self-employment rates has remained roughly constant over the past 90 years (Fairlie and Meyer 2000).”
• The Economics of Entrepreneurship: What We Know and What We Don't (2005, background): “Decomposition techniques have also been applied to explain ethnic entrepreneurship rates by [46], [34], [65], [66] and [83], among others.”
• Entrepreneurship in the UK (2007, unknown): “Fairlie and Meyer (2000), rule out a number of explanations for the difference in the self-employment rates of white and black males.”