evidence on trends in self-employment for the US by race, ethnicity and gender. Evidence is also presented for construction … which has self-employment rates roughly double the national rates and where there are strikingly high racial and gender …

Do national borders and ethnicity contribute to market segmentation between and within countries? This paper uses …, and in line with important characteristics of African economies, we investigate the role of ethnicity in mitigating and … exacerbating the border effect. We find that a common ethnicity is linked to lower price dispersion across countries, yet ethnic …