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How Do Employees of Ethnic Origin Fare on the Occupational Ladder in Britain?
Author(s) -
Borooah Vani K.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
scottish journal of political economy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.4
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1467-9485
pISSN - 0036-9292
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9485.00182
Subject(s) - microdata (statistics) , ethnic group , disadvantage , census , context (archaeology) , demographic economics , economics , labour economics , sociology , geography , demography , political science , population , anthropology , archaeology , law
This paper is concerned with inter‐group differences in the chances of being in different occupational classes. In particular, it focuses on Indian and on Black‐Caribbean men, in Britain, who were in full‐time employment. It asks: how much of the relative lack of occupational success experienced by Indians and Black‐Caribbean men can be explained by ethnic disadvantage and how much by the fact that they have the wrong worker attributes? It develops a decomposition methodology for answering this question within the context of discrete choice models with more than two alternatives, and it applies this methodology to microdata from the 1991 Census for Britain.