Racial Discrimination and Minority Business Enterprise
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A01=Jon S. Wainwright
affirmative action policy
Author_Jon S. Wainwright
Business Enterprise
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Category=KJH
Discrimination Gap
disparities
Disparity Index
Disparity Ratio
earnings
Earnings Gap
East South Central
economic inequality analysis
entrepreneurship research methods
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eq_business-finance-law
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Estimated Coefficient Vector
Estimated Odds Ratio
ethnic
Family Status Variables
industry
Industry Divisions
Industry Indicator Variables
Lower Self-employment Rates
mbe
MBE Program
Minority Business
Minority Business Enterprises
Minority Business Owners
minority-owned business discrimination evidence
non-Hispanic Whites
ownership
program
public sector contracting
PUMS Data
rates
Self-employed Business Owners
self-employment
self-employment disparities
Self-employment Earnings
Self-employment Rates
selfemployment
Simpson's Paradox
Social Security Administration Data
Strict Scrutiny Standard
Supreme Court decisions
West North Central
Product details
- ISBN 9781138984455
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 02 Sep 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Using a large microdata sample from the most recent decennial census, this book documents the economic disparities facing minority-owned business owners relative to non-minorities. The book incorporates a wide range of geographic and industrial categories and demonstrates that these disparities persist even when other important factors such as education, experience, wealth and family structure are held constant. Self-employed business owners comprise an important and growing sector of the U.S. economy. In contrast to wage workers, the issue of discrimination against minority business owners has received little attention from economists. However, recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions have made the continued constitutionality of affirmative action in public sector purchasing and contracting contingent upon documenting the existence of discrimination against such businesses within relevant geographic or industrial boundaries. The author shows that among prime working age males, being an entrepreneur is a relatively more lucrative form of employment, on average, than working for a wage. Typically, however, non-Hispanic whites become entrepreneurs at much higher rates and receive much higher earnings than their black, Hispanic, and Native American counterparts. The author's findings of racial and ethnic disparities are strongest for black and Native American entrepreneurs. Positive levels of discrimination facing Hispanic and Asian entrepreneurs are also documented. The book also includes discussion of relevant Supreme Court decisions, how economists attempt to measure discrimination and the major sources of data available for studying minority business enterprise.
