Decline and fall: Unemployment among Britain's non‐white ethnic communities 1960–1999

Derek Leslie, Joanne Lindley () and Leighton Thomas

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, 2001, vol. 164, issue 2, 371-387

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.

Date: 2001
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