Long-term ill health, poverty and ethnicity

Long-term ill health, poverty and ethnicity presents findings from a detailed new investigation into the experiences of individuals living with long-term ill-health and their families. New in-depth qualitative material is combined with secondary analyses of national datasets to examine the ways in which long-term ill-health impacts upon different dimensions of poverty. The book explores the links between long-term … More Long-term ill health, poverty and ethnicity

Child poverty, employment and ethnicity

Child poverty, employment and ethnicity in the UK: the role and limitations of policy discusses the intersection between child poverty and ethnic minority unemployment policy by illustrating the extent of child poverty as ethnically differentiated and exploring the ways in which it is related to aspects of employment. The article goes on to consider the policy implications for … More Child poverty, employment and ethnicity

Pay gaps: the position of ethnic minority men and women

Pay gaps: the position of ethnic minority men and women compares the average hourly earnings for full-time and part-time employees by ethnic group and gender, and summarises the extent of the pay gaps suffered by women from different ethnic groups and minority group men relative to the pay of white British men. It explores the gaps … More Pay gaps: the position of ethnic minority men and women

Social insecurity: children and benefit dynamics

Social insecurity: children and benefit dynamics uses administrative data to explore benefit dynamics for children in Britain’s second largest city, Birmingham, over the period January 1998 to June 1999. As the benefits in question (housing benefit and council tax benefit) are means tested, the dynamics are also informative about moves in and out of low income. … More Social insecurity: children and benefit dynamics

Social participation: illness, caring and ethnicity

Social participation: how does it vary with illness, caring and ethnic group? is an ISER Working Paper. The paper uses the British Home Office Citizenship Survey 2001 for England and Wales to explore the impact on four aspects of lack of social engagement of long-term illness, caring for someone with such an illness, and ethnicity. Download … More Social participation: illness, caring and ethnicity

Post-migration social mobility of minority ethnic groups

New destinations? Assessing the post-migration social mobility of minority ethnic groups in England and Wales considers the roles of migration and group-specific ethnic penalties in minority groups’ life chances. The article first explores the relationship of class origins to parental educational and economic assets for three groups of migrant parentage and a comparison white non-migrant group. It … More Post-migration social mobility of minority ethnic groups