British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 137

Unequal Chances: Ethnic Minorities in Western Labour Markets

edited by Anthony F Heath & Sin Yi Cheung, with Shawna N Smith

Published 2007
for the British Academy by Oxford University Press

234 × 156 mm; 732 pages
hardback, ISBN 978-0-19-726386-0
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This is the first major cross-national study of ethnic minority disadvantage in the labour market. Standard analyses, using the most authoritative datasets, make precise comparisons possible. Most groups of non-European ancestry experience substantial ethnic penalties in the second and later generations. This most authoritative account is essential reading for both scholars and policy makers.

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