abstract: 'Residential segregation has played a central role in theories of

  minority entrepreneurship and in the diversification of the U.S. labor

  market. Racial diversity in public accommodations, including schools,

  has been an issue of continuous public policy debate at least since the

  U.S. Supreme Court''s Plessy versus Ferguson decision (1896). This study

  applies theory from the literature on social capital to an examination

  of the role of racial segregation in the public schools of blacks during

  childhood on their adult likelihood to become self-employed and their

  level of occupational status. The model results indicate that, after

  controlling for a number of individual, household and metropolitan-area

  factors, lower rates of segregation during public schooling results in

  higher likelihood of wage-salary employment and self-employment among a

  cohort of black Americans that attended public schools during the 1960s.'
affiliation: 'Fairchild, G (Corresponding Author), Univ Virginia, Darden Grad Sch
  Business Adm, FOB 185,POB 6550, Charlottesville, VA 22906 USA.

  Univ Virginia, Darden Grad Sch Business Adm, Charlottesville, VA 22906 USA.'
author: Fairchild, Gregory
author-email: fairchildg@darden.virginia.edu
author_list:
- family: Fairchild
  given: Gregory
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1007/s11187-009-9202-x
eissn: 1573-0913
files: []
issn: 0921-898X
journal: SMALL BUSINESS ECONOMICS
keywords: Blacks; Education policy; Self-employment; Workforce diversity
keywords-plus: 'RESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION; SELF-EMPLOYMENT; METROPOLITAN-AREAS; ETHNIC

  ENTERPRISE; INEQUALITY; DIVERSITY; BUSINESS; EDUCATION; NETWORKS; RACE'
language: English
month: DEC
number: '4'
number-of-cited-references: '76'
pages: 467-484
papis_id: f75e411405ab235938272e4a6534dd24
ref: Fairchild2009racialsegregation
times-cited: '7'
title: 'Racial segregation in the public schools and adult labor market outcomes:
  the case of black Americans'
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000271962600007
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '24'
volume: '33'
web-of-science-categories: Business; Economics; Management
year: '2009'