Firm racial segregation and affirmative action in the highway construction industry
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Firm Racial Segregation and Affirmative Action in the Highway Construction Industry
In this paper I document that highway construction firms in California, particularly those owned by Blacks and Asians, exhibit considerable racial segregation in that they are disproportionately located in zip codes with the greatest concentration of own-race residents. I find that segregated firms serve a larger market than minority-owned firms that are not segregated, and this effect is conce...
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عنوان ژورنال: Small Business Economics
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0921-898X,1573-0913
DOI: 10.1007/s11187-009-9204-8