Ethnic minority immigrants and their children in Britain

Christian Dustmann and Nikolaos Theodoropoulos

Oxford Economic Papers, 2010, vol. 62, issue 2, 209-233

Abstract: This paper investigates educational attainment and economic performance of ethnic minority immigrants and their children in Britain, in comparison to white British born. We find that ethnic minority immigrants and their children are on average better educated in comparison to their British born white peers. Educational attainment of British born minorities is far higher than that of their parent generation, and supersedes that of their white native born peers. Despite this, British born ethnic minorities exhibit on average lower employment probabilities. Their mean wages appear to be slightly higher than those of their white native born peers, but this is due to their higher educational attainment and their concentration in Greater London. Mean wages would be considerably lower for the same characteristics and the same regional allocation. Differences in wage offers do not explain employment differences of British born ethnic minorities. We discuss possible alternative explanations. Copyright 2010 Oxford University Press 2010 All rights reserved, Oxford University Press.

Date: 2010
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