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Title: Does Business Ownership Provide a Source of Upward Mobility for Blacks and Hispanics?
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1. Fairlie, Robert W.
Does Business Ownership Provide a Source of Upward Mobility for Blacks and Hispanics?
In: Public Policy and the Economics of Entrepreneurship. D. Holtz-Eakin and H.S. Rosen, eds. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2004: pp. 153-179.
Also: http://people.ucsc.edu/~rfairlie/papers/published/mit%202004%20-%20minority%20self-employment%20growth.pdf
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: MIT Press
Keyword(s): Earnings; Hispanics; Minority Groups; Mobility; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Racial Differences; Self-Employed Workers; Unemployment

This chapter examines the earnings patterns of young black and hispanic business owners. Date from the NLSY79 are used to examine the long-term earning patterns (1979-1998) of young self-employed blacks and hispanics. Earnings patterns of young black and hispanic wage/salary workers are placed in context with young white self-employed and wage/salary workers. The key question is whether black and hispanic youths who are self-employed early in their careers experience faster earnings growth that their counterparts employed in the wage/salary sector. [Paraphrased from Introduction to the .pdf file]
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Fairlie, Robert W. "Does Business Ownership Provide a Source of Upward Mobility for Blacks and Hispanics?" In: Public Policy and the Economics of Entrepreneurship. D. Holtz-Eakin and H.S. Rosen, eds. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2004: pp. 153-179.