Educational attainment: A key factor for improving the lagging rate of black entrepreneurship

Review of Black Political Economy

Volumn 34, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 217-229

  Singh, Robert P ^a   Crump, Micah E S ^a  

^a MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Black entrepreneurship; Black vs white differences; Educational attainment; PSED

Indexed keywords

EID: 51849100486     PISSN: 00346446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12114-008-9011-5     Document Type: Article

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