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Oxford Economic Papers 2006 58(2):351-378; doi:10.1093/oep/gpl005
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Ethnic differences in women's employment: the changing role of qualifications

Joanne K. Lindley*, Angela Dale{dagger}, and Shirley Dex{ddagger}

*Department of Economics, University of Sheffield, 9 Mappin Street, Sheffield, S1 4DT; {dagger}Department of Sociology, Centre for Census and Survey Research, University of Manchester. {ddagger}Department of Economics, Institute of Education.

Correspondence: e-mail: j.lindley{at}shef.ac.uk

We pool eight spring QLFS quarters for 1992–5 and 2000–3 to examine female employment changes by ethnic group. We find that employment has significantly increased for all women except Black Caribbean/Other women. We show that qualifications have played an increasingly important role and there has been further polarization between the employment of women with a degree compared to those without. This is especially large for Pakistani/Bangladeshi women. Our decomposition analysis shows that decomposing White/Non-White mean employment differences demonstrates an increase in the unexplained discriminatory component for most ethnic groups. Hence differences in White and Non-White characteristics explain less of the 2000–3 employment differential than in 1993–5. Furthermore, significant unexplained ethnic penalties of up to 60% still exist for South Asian women.

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