A01=Reza Hasmath
attainment
Author_Reza Hasmath
barriers to minority labour market success
Canadian Race Relations Foundation
Category=JBSL
Category=KNX
Category=NHTB
Census Tracts
Constrict Theory
economy
educational
Employment Equity
Employment Equity Legislation
enclave
eq_bestseller
eq_business-finance-law
eq_history
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
Es tA
Ethnic Economy
Ethnic Enclave
Ethnic Enclave Economy
Ethnic Minority Households
Ethnic Penalty
Exclusionary Discrimination
groups
Human Capital Accumulation Process
labour
market
minorities
minority
minority integration
Non-ethnic Minorities
non-European Ethnic Minorities
occupational attainment
Occupational Outcomes
Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test
Pa Rti
qualitative research
social capital theory
social mobility
Social Trust
Socio-economic Integration
Toronto Catholic District School Board
Toronto District School Board
visible
Visible Ethnic Minorities
Visible Ethnic Minority Groups
Wage Offer Distribution
workplace discrimination
Product details
- ISBN 9781138260641
- Weight: 270g
- Dimensions: 153 x 219mm
- Publication Date: 11 Nov 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Populations of visible ethnic minorities have steadily increased over the past few decades in immigrant-receptive societies. While a complex calculus of push and pull factors has motivated this increase, one of the main impetuses for this migration has been the search for employment, better wages and a higher standard of living. It is therefore not surprising that the educational attainments of the first generation and beyond have achieved convergence with, or exceeded the non-ethnic minority cohort. These outcomes may suggest a greater propensity for visible ethnic minorities to attain labour market success and to fully integrate within the community. However, the narrative derived from statistical analysis, interviews and participant observation suggest an uneasiness boldly to claim this as the most convincing conclusion at this juncture. The Ethnic Penalty argues that a penalty has impeded the occupational success of ethnic minorities during the job search, hiring and promotion process. As a result, ethnic minorities have a lower income, higher unemployment and a general failure to convert their high educational attainments into comparable occupational outcomes. In this context, the book examines whether explanatory factors such as discrimination, an individual's social network, a firm's working culture, and a community's social trust are major contributing reasons behind this apparent penalty, whilst also making suggestions for improving the integration, education delivery, and labour market outcomes of visible ethnic minorities.
Reza Hasmath is Lecturer in Chinese Politics at the University of Oxford, UK and editor of Managing Ethnic Diversity.
