determinants of entry into self-employment. They demonstrate that the oft-cited positive relationship between entry rates and … demonstrate that bifurcating the sample into workers who enter self-employment after job loss and those who do not reveals … significantly positive determinant of entry into self-employment. Our estimates indicate that a 10 percent annual increase in …

-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 …

behind white-owned businesses in sales, profits, employment size and survival probabilities? Estimates from the CBO indicate …