Ethnic Inequality - Workplace

Ethnic Inequality - Workplace

1. Experience prejudice, discrimination & stereotyping

2. Hindus are well represented in the highly paid medical profession

3. 2004

   • Ethnic minority workers earned £18,044 compared with £19,552 for white employees. Bangladeshi salary was £12,220 a year.
   • Unemployment rates!
     • Lowest rate - white men - 5%
     • Highest rate - African Carribean men - 14%
     • Lowest rate among ethnic minority - Indian men - 7%
     • 37 % of Bangladeshi 16-24 & 35 % of Pakistanis compared with 11% of white people
     • Ethnic minority men - less likely than white to be employed in skilled trades 12% compared with 20%
   • White men were paid £1.80 per hour more than ethnic minority men

4. Block (2004)

   • Recent immagrants generally experience significant disadvantage - refuges earning 79% of the pay of ethnic minority groups

5. First annual report - Government's Ethnic Minority Taskforce

   • Employment rate among ethnic minorities was 59.4% compared with 74.9% for the general population

6. JRF

   • When qualification levels are taken into account - there's difference between earnings of white people & black or Indian people.

7. Lucinda Platt (2007)

   • Ethnic minority workers do not have access to informal social networks

8. Clark & Drinkwater (2007)

   • Many Asians prefer self-employment in relatively low paid sectors - taxi-driving/catering - rather than face discrimination in the wider employment sector.

9. 2007

   • Unemployment rate for ethnic minorities was over 11% - twice the national average!!

10. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation 2007

    • Men from ethnic minorities in managerial & professional jobs earn up to 25% less than their white colleagues!
    • African- Carribean & Bangladeshi men were most likely to face greatest pay discrimination

11. An African-Caribbean graduate is more than twice as likely to be unemployed as a white graduate.

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