TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Chatterji, Aaron K.
AU  - Chay, Kenneth Y.
AU  - Fairlie, Robert W.
        TI  - The Impact of City Contracting Set-Asides on Black Self-Employment and Employment
        PY  - 2013/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 7298
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp7298
        AB  - 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 business ownership rates increased significantly after program initiation, with the black-white gap falling three percentage points. The evidence that the racial gap in employment also fell is less clear as it is depends on assumptions about the continuation of pre-existing trends. The black gains were concentrated in industries heavily affected by set-asides and mostly benefited the better educated.
        KW  - entrepreneurship
KW  - self-employment
KW  - race
KW  - black
KW  - African-American
KW  - contracting
KW  - affirmative action
        ER  -