Unemployment and Race
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23670509 |
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| Authors | Sonia Mckay (University of the West of England, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Pages | 1-2 |
| Publication date | 2015-12-30 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781118663202.wberen360 |
| OpenAlex | W2469145546 |
| ISBN | 9781118663202 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
Unemployment can affect all sections of the labor market. However, data consistently show that people from minority ethnic backgrounds are more likely to experience unemployment. In periods of economic crisis, job losses and unemployment levels are correlated with ethnicity but an unemployment gap exists even in periods of economic prosperity, affecting, in particular, young people and women. This entry reviews some of the causes of the discrepancy in unemployment rates by ethnicity, providing some recent data.
Affect (linguistics) · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Ethnic group · Job loss · Labour economics · Political science · Prosperity · Race (biology) · Sociology · Unemployment · Gender Studies · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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