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Title: Racial Segregation in the Public Schools and Adult Labor Market Outcomes: The Case of Black Americans

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Publication Year: 2009

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Abstract: Residential segregation has played acentral role in theories of minority entrepreneurshipand in the diversification of the U.S. labor market.Racial diversity in public accommodations, includingschools, has been an issue of continuous public policydebate at least since the U.S. Supreme Courts Plessyversus Ferguson decision (1896). This study appliestheory from the literature on social capital to anexamination of the role of racial segregation in thepublic schools of blacks during childhood on theiradult likelihood to become self-employed and theirlevel of occupational status. The model resultsindicate that, after controlling for a number ofindividual, household and metropolitan-area factors,lower rates of segregation during public schoolingresults in higher likelihood of wage-salary employmentand self-employment among a cohort of blackAmericans that attended public schools during the1960s.

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Authors: Fairchild, Gregory

Periodical (Full): Small Business Economics

Issue: 4

Volume: 33

Pages: 467-484

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Race and Ethnicity

Countries: United States