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Differential Influence of Residential Segregation on the Likelihood of Being Self-Employed

Introduction

This paper develops and estimates a model of potential to enter self-employment based on individual, household, and community-level factors. Of particular interest is the differential influence of two racial residential segregation processes on self-employment for white and black Americans.

Description

Residential segregation of racial groups is a topic that has been widely examined in the social sciences, though seldom in regard to its effects on self-employment.

The paper consists of a multilevel analysis that combines responses of more than 400,000 persons to the 1990 and 2000 Integrated Public Use Micro Sample (IPUMS) with structural measures from 327 metropolitan areas from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Housing Patterns files.

Conclusions

The paper finds that two residential segregation processes (relative clustering and exposure) limit and enhance potential entry into self-employment, but in unique ways for each group.

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University of Virginia - Darden Graduate School of Business Administration
Gregory Fairchild

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Gregory Fairchild

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Document type

research

Themes

Urban Policy > Economy knowledge & employment > Urban economy

Keywords

Employment