Ethnic Social Inequalities

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Work and Employment- Ethnicity (2011 Census)
Of those in employment, men from the Pakistani (57%), Black African (54%) and Bangladeshi (53%) ethnic groups were most likely to work in low-skilled jobs
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Work and Employment- Ethnicity (Wood et al)
Found that discrimination in favour of white names over equivalent applications from candidates from a number of ethnic minority groups was 29%
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Work and Employment- Ethnicity (Joseph Rowntree Foundation 2007)
There is evidence that some ethnic minority graduates, particularly women, are finding it harder to gain higher-level positions in their occupations
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Poverty- Ethnicity (2011 Census)
1/3 Bangladeshis and Pakistanis in England and Wales were living in ‘deprived neighbourhoods’. In contrast, only 1/12 of the Census’ White British group lived in deprived neighbourhoods
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Poverty- Ethnicity (The Runnymede Report)
Found that ethnic minority groups are up to three times more likely than white people to experience poverty in retirement
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Poverty- Ethnicity (Flaherty et al)
uggests a number of reasons for high rates of poverty among ethnic minority groups, including the fact that members of ethnic minority households are more likely to be unemployed compared to white
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Income and Wealth- Ethnicity (ONS 2014)
Around 2/5 of people from ethnic minorities live in low-income households, twice the rate than for white people
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Income and Wealth- Ethnicity (The Joseph Rowntree Foundation)
Men from each ethnic minority earn at least 10% less than the comparable White group with Black African, Pakistani and Bangladeshi men earning more than a 20% earnings deficit
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Income and Wealth- Ethnicity (The National Equality Panel 2010)
White British households had the greatest level of wealth in 2006/8 on average, at £221,000, closely followed by Indian households. The group with the least wealth was Bangladeshi households, with only £15,000 total net wealth on average.
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Social Mobility- Ethnicity (Ami Sedghi 2014)
Reports that, despite levels of educational attainment improving significantly for ethnic minorities, they are still facing barriers to social mobility and job opportunities
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Social Mobility- Ethnicity (Platt)
Reported that the occupational position of women from the ethnic minority communities was more dependent on their origins than it was for men
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Social Mobility- Ethnicity (Heath and Li)
43% of white men moved up to a higher socio-economic class in comparison to only 34.3% of first-generation Pakistani and Bangladeshi men
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Found that discrimination in favour of white names over equivalent applications from candidates from a number of ethnic minority groups was 29%

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There is evidence that some ethnic minority graduates, particularly women, are finding it harder to gain higher-level positions in their occupations

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1/3 Bangladeshis and Pakistanis in England and Wales were living in ‘deprived neighbourhoods’. In contrast, only 1/12 of the Census’ White British group lived in deprived neighbourhoods

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Found that ethnic minority groups are up to three times more likely than white people to experience poverty in retirement

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