Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/98630
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 708
Publisher: 
University of California, Economics Department, Santa Cruz, CA
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 estimate their 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.
JEL: 
I18
O15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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