Religion and ethnicity at work: a study of British Muslim women’s labour market performance

Sami Miaari, Nabil Khattab () and Ron Johnston
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Sami Miaari: Tel-Aviv University
Nabil Khattab: Doha Institute for Graduate Studies

Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, 2019, vol. 53, issue 1, No 2, 19-47

Abstract: Abstract The literature on British Muslim women’s labour market experience suffers from four lacunae: the inadequate analysis of the multi-layered facets of their identities and the disadvantages they face; the narrow range of labour market outcomes studied (primarily labour market participation and unemployment); a lack of recent studies on the integration of Muslim women, educated in the UK and with English as their first language, into the labour market; and the absence of material on several sub-groups due to the lack of data, notably Arab, Christian Indian and White-British Muslim women. Using a large sample of data from the 2011 British census, the analyses presented here suggest that most non-White women face significant labour market penalties, with religion having a greater impact on labour market outcomes than race/ethnicity; Muslim women were the most disadvantaged, compared to other religious minorities, more so in relation to unemployment levels, part-time jobs and out of employment history, than in relation to occupational class and over-qualification. The results also suggest that the penalties facing Muslim women shaped by their ethnicity; not all Muslim women were similarly disadvantaged.

Keywords: Muslim women; UK labour market; Ethnic penalty; Religious penalty; Employment prospects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/s11135-018-0721-x

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