Racial Discrimination and Minority Business Enterprise: Evidence from the 1990 Census

ISBN-13: 9780815333982 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 170 str.

Jon S. Wainwright

Opis

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Spis treści

Preface; Tables and Figures; Chapter 1: Economists in the Courtroom; Institutional and Neoclassical Theories of Economic Discrimination; Economists in the Courtroom; Public Sector Affirmative Action for Minority Business Enterprises; Constitutional Controversies over Affirmative Action for Minority Business Enterprises; The Aftermath of Croson and Adarand ; Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Business Enterprise; Notes; Chapter 2: Documenting Business Disparities; Introduction: Croson and the Importance of Geographic and Industrial Detail; Available Data Sources for Analyzing Minority Business Enterprise; The Dataset Prepared for This Study; Estimates of Nation-wide and Economy-wide Disparities in Racial and Ethnic Self-Employment Rates and Earnings; Estimates of Disaggregated Disparities in Racial and Ethnic Self-Employment Rates and Earnings; Notes; Chapter 3: Business Disparities and Discrimination; Business Ownership Analysis; Business Owner Earnings Analysis: Oaxaca's Measure of Pay Discrimination; Specification of the Dependent and Independent Variables; Results of Business Ownership Analyses; Results of Business Earnings Analyses; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Index

O autorze

Jon S. Wainwright