Contrary to the impression given by the Sewell Report, things for ethnic minorities in the UK labour market are not getting better
Using estimates from the Labour Force Survey, Alan Manning and Rebecca Rose fill in some of the gaps of the government's Sewell Report on race and ethnic disparities. Comparing disparities in pay, employment, and unemployment among different ethnic groups in the UK, they show that there has been little change over the past 25 years. Indeed, for black, Pakistani, and Bangladeshi men and women, pay gaps with white men and women have widened.
19 April 2021
LSE Politics and Policy
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/sewell-report-labour-market/
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