Ethnic minorities in the labour market - Dynamics and diversity (Paperback, New)

The welfare of ethnic minority individuals in Britain depends critically on how they fare in the labor market. This report provides a detailed empirical analysis of labor market outcomes, and explores how ethnically diverse these outcomes are and how they have changed over time. Using individual-level data from the UK Census and Labour Force Survey, statistical models of employment and self-employment outcomes are estimated. The report looks at how changes in labor market outcomes are related to the demographic characteristics of minority groups including their age structure, educational qualifications, religious affiliation, and patterns of residential location. It also investigates the occupational attainment and earnings of ethnic minority groups in employment. The report analyzes men and women separately, emphasizing the different factors driving labor market behavior for each gender, and it presents implications of the research for government policy towards ethnic minorities in t