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The Impact of City Contracting Set-Asides on Black Self-Employment and Employment
Chatterji, Aaron K.; Chay, Kenneth Y.; Fairlie, Robert W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
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...
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High-Technology Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley
Fairlie, Robert W.; Chatterji, Aaron K. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
measure of entrepreneurship derived from matching files from the Current Population Survey (CPS) is used to provide the first …. Estimates indicate that hi-tech entrepreneurship rates were lower in Silicon Valley than the rest of the United States during … the period from January 1996 to February 2000. Examining the post-boom period, we find that entrepreneurship rates in …
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