The Absence of the African‐American Owned Business: An Analysis of the Dynamics of Self‐Employment
利用收入动态面板数据，发现非裔男性自雇率仅为白人男性的三分之一，主要因进入率低一半、退出率高两倍；资产和父亲自雇经历解释了大部分进入差距，但几乎无法解释退出差距。
Estimates from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics indicate that African-American men are one-third as likely to be self-employed as white men. The large discrepancy is due to a black transition rate into self-employment that is approximately one-half the white rate and a black transition rate out of self-employment that is twice the white rate. Using a new variation of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique, the author finds that racial differences in asset levels and probabilities of having self-employed fathers explain a large part of the gap in the entry rate, but almost none of the gap in the exit rate. Copyright 1999 by University of Chicago Press.