Decline and fall: Unemployment among Britain's non-white ethnic communities 1960–1999 |
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Authors: | Derek Leslie Joanne Lindley & Leighton Thomas |
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Institution: | Manchester Metropolitan University, UK |
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Abstract: | The declining employment fortunes of Britain's non-white communities, relative to whites, are explained. To achieve this comparison, some historical official sources of unemployment data are reviewed. The earliest known official time series on unemployment of non-whites dates back to 1960. This historical context is explored, especially the reluctance to make the early data more widely known. An unemployment series for non-white males and females from 1970 to 1999 is derived in two separate ways by splicing together official sources. These series are compared with unemployment of whites to demonstrate a relative increase in unemployment of non-whites. |
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Keywords: | Unemployment of non-whites |
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