Ethnic and migrant penalties in job quality in the UK: the role of residential concentration and occupational clustering.
Migrants and ethnic minorities in the UK are found to be disadvantaged in their access to work and earnings, but little is known about the characteristics of the jobs they occupy. This paper studies whether migrants and UK-born ethnic minorities attain similar jobs compared to their white British pe...
| Published in: | Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies Vol. 46; no. 1; pp. 200 - 222 |
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