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Title

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

Publication

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

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Additional Authors

• Heath, A. F. (Anthony Francis)
• Cheung, Sin Yi.
• Smith, Shawna N.
• British Academy.

Description

xiii, 715 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

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."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Proceedings of the British Academy, 0068-1202 ; 137

Uniform Title

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 137.

Subject

• Minorities > Employment > Cross-cultural studies
• Labor market > Cross-cultural studies
• Discrimination in employment > Cross-cultural studies
• Social policy > Cross-cultural studies
• Discrimination in employment
• Labor market
• Minorities > Employment
• Social policy
• Arbeitsmarkt
• Nationale Minderheit
• Etniska minoriteter > arbete och arbetsmarknad > Västerlandet > jämförande studier
• Diskriminering på arbetsmarknaden > Västerlandet > jämförande studier
• Westliche Welt

Genre/Form

Cross-cultural studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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.

ISBN

• 9780197263860
• 0197263860

LCCN

2008353538

OCLC

• ocm71163762
• 71163762
• SCSB-1453523

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library