NEW figures from the 2011 Census show successive government policies have had little impact on the high levels of joblessness among some ethnic minority groups.
The grim picture is revealed by a team at the University of Manchester based at the centre on dynamics of ethnicity (CoDE).
According to their analysis of people aged 25 to 49, White ethnic groups – with the exception of the Gypsy or Irish Traveller group – are significantly advantaged in the labour market when compared with other ethnic groups.
Only Indian men and Black Caribbean women had similar rates of participation in the labour market to the White ethnic groups.
And, of those in the labour force, Pakistani men had unemployment rates that were one-and-a-half times the figure for White British men and Black Caribbean men an unemployment rate that was almost three times as high.
Pakistani women were more than three times as likely to be unemployed than White British women, and Black Caribbean women were more than twice as likely.
The project is led by Professor James Nazroo and Dharmi Kapadia, both based at CoDE.
