The Impact of City Contracting Set-Asides on Black Self-Employment and Employment / Aaron K. Chatterji, Kenneth Y. Chay, Robert W. Fairlie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chatterji, Aaron K.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Chay, Kenneth Y.

Fairlie, Robert W.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w18884.

NBER working paper series no. w18884

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2013.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Print version record

March 2013.