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dc.contributor.authorUwaifo Oyelere, Ruthen
dc.contributor.authorBelton, Willieen
dc.date.accessioned2008-10-22-
dc.date.accessioned2010-07-07T11:54:09Z-
dc.date.available2010-07-07T11:54:09Z-
dc.date.issued2008-
dc.identifier.piurn:nbn:de:101:1-20081126162en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/35630-
dc.description.abstractIt has been well documented in the literature that ethnicity matters significantly in the determination of self-employment rates. In particular, African-American self-employment rates lag far behind rates for other racial groups. Similarly, the literature also provides evidence of the long lived nature of institutions and the link between institutions and decision making. After controlling for the appropriate factors that can lead to self-employment differentials, we provide an explanation for the self-employment gap that still exists between African-Americans and White Americans. We focus on the important role of repeated negative institutional shocks and how such shocks influence the development of an information matrix as well as the transmission of information across time and generations. We show that African-Americans who were less likely to be influenced by negative institutional shocks and the information stock created from these experiences, have similar self-employment rates to comparably situated White Americans.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonnen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aIZA Discussion Papers |x3761en
dc.subject.jelJ15en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordSelf-employmenten
dc.subject.keywordinformationen
dc.subject.keywordinstitutionsen
dc.subject.keywordAfrican-Americanen
dc.subject.stwSelbstständigeen
dc.subject.stwFarbige Bevölkerungen
dc.subject.stwInstitutionelle Infrastrukturen
dc.subject.stwBerufserfahrungen
dc.subject.stwInformationsverhaltenen
dc.subject.stwGenerationenbeziehungenen
dc.subject.stwUSAen
dc.titleThe role of information and institutions in understanding the black-white gap in self-employment-
dc.type|aWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn583111254en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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