We examine trends in entrepreneurship among white and black men from 1910 to 1990 using Census and CPS microdata … self-employment industries.  Recently, the increase in business ownership was caused by an end to the within industry … benefits, and immigration patterns do not explain the recent upturn in self-employment.  For black men, we find that the self …

entrepreneurship among several ethnic/racial groups in the United States.  I find rapid growth rates for the number of self … rates were primarily due to expansions in the labor force for these groups.  With the exception of female rates in the 1980 …s, trends in business ownership rates were fairly flat over the past two decades.  There were, however, important …

.  However, the impact of immigration on natives in entrepreneurship has not been examined, despite the over-representation of … outcomes of native-born Americans.  However, the impact of immigration on natives in entrepreneurship has not been examined …A rapidly growing literature examines the impact of immigrants on the labor market outcomes of native-born Americans …

Theoretical models of entrepreneurship posit that attitudes toward risk, entrepreneurial ability, and preferences for … rapidly growing empirical literature on entrepreneurship, however, have been able to test whether these factors are important … determinants of self-employment. Theoretical models of entrepreneurship posit that attitudes toward risk, entrepreneurial ability …

Using confidential microdata from the Characteristics of Business Owners, we examine why African-American owned … businesses lag substantially behind white-owned businesses in sales, profits, employment, and survival.  Black business owners … are much less likely than white owners to have had a self-employed family member owner prior to starting their business …

and gender gaps in outcomes especially wage, earnings and other labor market outcomes. The technique cannot be used … may be problematic. Applicaiton to computer ownership and entrepreneurship are used to illustrate the technique.   …

paper, we explore the relationship between business income (BI) receipt and labor reallocation. We show that BI recipients …The share of the U.S. population that receives business income has increased substantially in recent decades. At the … are largely excluded from existing measures of labor reallocation. Including BI recipients reduces the measured decline …