Decline and fall: unemployment among Britain's non-white ethnic communities 1960-1999

Leslie, Derek, Lindley, Joanne and Thomas, Leighton (2001) Decline and fall: unemployment among Britain's non-white ethnic communities 1960-1999. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society series A (Statistics in society), 164 (2). pp. 371-387. ISSN 0964-1998

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Abstract

The declining employment fortunes of Britain's non-white communities, relative to whites, are explained. To achieve this comparison, some historical official sources of unemployment data are reviewed. The earliest known official time series on unemployment of non-whites dates back to 1960. This historical context is explored, especially the reluctance to make the early data more widely known. An unemployment series for non-white males and females from 1970 to 1999 is derived in two separate ways by splicing together official sources. These series are compared with unemployment of whites to demonstrate a relative increase in unemployment of non-whites.