The Changing Distribution of the Male Ethnic Wage Gap in Great Britain

Ken Clark and Steve Nolan ()
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Steve Nolan: University of Manchester

No 14276, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We decompose the ethnic pay gap in Great Britain across the distribution of hourly wages, yielding a detailed insight into differences between groups and how these vary over pay percentiles and through time. While some groups experience reductions in the pay gap consistent with lower discrimination, including relatively well paid Indian workers and relatively poorly paid Bangladeshis, others - specifically Black groups - face an apparent glass ceiling barring access to well paid jobs. The increasing educational attainment of Britain's ethnic groups provides some optimism around narrowing pay differentials, particularly at the top of the distribution, while the introduction and uprating of the National Minimum/Living Wage has contributed to improvements at the lower end.

Keywords: ethnic pay gap; race discrimination; minimum wages; decomposition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 J15 J31 J38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 58 pages
Date: 2021-04
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur, nep-hrm, nep-lma and nep-ltv
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