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Title: Skin Tone and Self-Employment: Is there an Intra-Group Variation among Blacks?
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Devaraj, Srikant Patel, Pankaj C. |
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Skin Tone and Self-Employment: Is there an Intra-Group Variation among Blacks? Review of Black Political Economy 44,1 (2017): 137-166. Also: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12114-017-9249-x Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Springer Keyword(s): Black Studies; Self-Employed Workers; Skin Tone Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The purpose of this paper is to formally evaluate whether odds of entry into self-employment decrease as skin tone darkens for Blacks in the United States. Extending past work on inter-group differences in Black-White self-employment, based on data from National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, with darker skin tone the odds of self-employment decline. Having spent more time in labor force further decreases the likelihood of self-employment for darker skin tone Blacks, and being a high-school graduate, scoring high on Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB), or higher past year income are not associated with self-employment of darker skin tone Blacks. While darker skin tone Blacks who are self-employed derive lower income, those who are self-employed and with more human capital (longer time spent in the labor force, scoring high on ASVAB or being a high school graduate) have a higher income. |
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Devaraj, Srikant and Pankaj C. Patel. "Skin Tone and Self-Employment: Is there an Intra-Group Variation among Blacks?" Review of Black Political Economy 44,1 (2017): 137-166.
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