Unequal chances : ethnic minorities in Western labour markets / edited by Anthony F. Heath & Sin Yi Cheung with Shawna N. Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Heath, A. F. (Anthony Francis)

Cheung, Sin Yi

Smith, Shawna N.

British Academy.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 0068-1202 137.

Proceedings of the British Academy, 0068-1202 ; 137

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minorities--Employment--Cross-cultural studies.

Minorities.

Labor market--Cross-cultural studies.

Labor market.

Discrimination in employment--Cross-cultural studies.

Discrimination in employment.

Social policy--Cross-cultural studies.

Social policy.

Minorities--Employment.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 715 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2007.

Summary:

"This is the first major cross-national study of ethnic minority disadvantage in the labour market. It focuses on the experiences of' the 'second generation', that is of the children of immigrants, in a range of affluent western countries (western Europe, north America, Australia, Israel)." "Standard analyses, using the most authoritative available datasets for each country, enable the reader to make precise comparisons. The study reveals that most-groups of non-European ancestry continue to experience substantial ethnic penalties in the second (and later) generations. But the magnitude of these penalties varies quite substantially between countries, with major implications for social policy."--BOOK JACKET.

Contents:

The comparative study of ethnic minority disadvantage / Anthony Heath & Sin Yi Cheung

Diversity and mobility in Australia / Christine Inglis & Suzanne Model

Continuing ethnic segmentation in Austria / Irena Kogan

Down and out : the children of migrant workers in the Belgian labour market / Karen Phalet

Inclusion for all but Aboriginals in Canada / Soojin Yu & Anthony Heath

Is French society truly assimilative? : immigrant parents and offspring on the French labour market / Roxane Silberman & Irene Fournier

Educational hurdles on the way to structural assimiliation in Germany / Frank Kalter & Nadia Granato

Instant absorption of immigrants adn persistent exclusion of Arab citizens in Israel / Yossi Shavit, Noah Lewin-Epstein & Irit Adler

Equal opportunities or social closure in the Netherlands? / Paul Tesser & Jaap Dronkers

The legacy of apartheid : racial inequalities in the new South Africa / Donald J. Treiman

The farther they come, the harder they fall? : first- and second-generation immigrants in the Swedish labour market / Jan. O. Jonsson

Nice work if you can get it : ethnic penalties in Great Britain / Sin Yi Cheung & Anthony Heath

Progress in reducing catholic disadvantage in Northern Ireland / Yaoyun Li & Richard O'Leary

The new second generation at the turn of the new century : Europeans and non-Europeans in the US labour market / Suzanne Model & Gene A. Fisher

Crossnational patterns and processes of ethnic disadvantage / Anthony Heath.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780197263860

0197263860

OCLC:

71163762