Open AccessHave British Jews fully assimilated in the UK Labour Market?
Author(s) -
Nabil Khattab
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
rimcis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.189
H-Index - 3
ISSN - 2014-3680
DOI - 10.17583/rimcis.2015.1490
Subject(s) - earnings , judaism , population , educational attainment , white (mutation) , demographic economics , labour economics , economics , sociology , demography , geography , economic growth , finance , biology , biochemistry , archaeology , gene
This paper analyses the patterns of occupational attainment and earnings among the Jewish community in Britain using UK Labour Force Survey data (2002-2010). The findings suggest that although British-Jews cannot be distinguished from the majority main stream population of British-White in terms of their overall occupational attainment and earnings, it seems that they have managed to integrate through patterns of self-employment and concentration in the service sector economy, particularly in banking and financial services. It is argued that this self-employment profile is a Jewish strategy used to minimise dependency on majority group employers and by doing so to helping to escape any religious penalties.