Fairlie, Robert W. - 1999
We examine trends in self-employment among white and black men from 1910 to 1990 using Census and CPS microdata. Self …-employment rates fell over most of the century and then started to rise after 1970. For white men, we find that the decline was due to …-employment. For black men, we find that the self-employment rate remained at a level of roughly one-third the white rate from 1910 to …