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Title: Ethnic Wage Gaps in Britain and the USA

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Publication Year: 2012

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Abstract: The US is often viewed as being more open and more tolerant to the minority ethnic groups than Britain. While this view is supported in studies of employment status and class position, there is very limited research on the labour market earnings of minority ethnic groups between the two countries. Drawing on the General Household Survey and the Labour Force Survey for Britain and Integrated Public Use Microdata series(IPUMs) for the US covering the early 1990s and the early 2000s, this analysis shows that minority ethnic men in both countries earned significantly less than White men, with little cross-country difference. Women had poorer socio-economic conditions than men, but minority ethnic women were not paid less than White women in either country. The overtime change showed more ethnic groups with worsening earnings in the US than in Britain. Overall, we found grave gender gaps and marked ethnic penalties for men but no signs of greater equality or progress enjoyed by the US minority ethnics than by their British counterparts. American exceptionalism is not supported in this study, and reducing gender wage gap and male ethnic penalty is the top priority for bringing about greater equality in both countries.

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Authors: Li, Yaojun

Editors: R. Connelly, P. Lambert R. Blackburn

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Volume Title: Social Stratification: Trends and Processes

Publisher: Ashgate

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration, Race and Ethnicity

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