Is the inner city competitive?

Review of Black Political Economy

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 213-219

  Simms, Margaret C ^a   Allen, Winston J ^a  

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EID: 0040793646     PISSN: 00346446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02690032     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. Timothy Bates, "Do Black-Owned Businesses Employ Minority Workers? New Evidence," Review of Black Political Economy 16 (Spring 1988).
2. Two variables allow us to determine neighborhood characteristics: responses to a survey question about location - "central city," "suburban," etc., and a Joint Center-created file that matches zip code to selected neighborhood characteristics taken from the Census of Population and Housing; 1990 (Summary Tape file 3 on CD-ROM).
3. In 1987, over 50 percent of all minority-owned firms included in the Census Bureau Survey of Minority-Owned Businesses were in these four states. In 1992, the same four states included 30 percent of all black-owned businesses. (At the time this article was written, the Census Bureau had not released data for other minority-owned businesses.)
4. The overall response rate for the minority firms, which are the focus of this discussion, was 21.9 percent, for a total of 669 minority respondents.
5. A recent study by the Joint Center indicates that non-Hispanic blacks are over four times as likely as whites to depend on public transportation for the worktrip. Hispanics were somewhat less dependent, being slightly less than three times as likely as whites to use public transit to get to their jobs. Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, The Trip to Work: A Demographic Profile of Public Transit Users, A Report to the Federal Transit Administration under Cooperative Agreement No. DC-26-6020, May 1995.
6. Porter's other measure is one million dollars or more in sales. In our sample the two measures were highly correlated.
7. This size difference was statistically significant at the 99 percent confidence level.