Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/173983 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 11073
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Analyses of ethnic and racial wage differentials neglect the fact that minorities cluster in urban and in more deprived areas. This paper estimates ethnic wage differentials by comparing minorities to the majority in the same local labour market and therefore facing similar socio-economic conditions. Location is important: in the UK ethnic wage differentials and their variation across areas are partly explained by job characteristics and especially occupation. Since minorities in some areas are worse off compared to minorities in other areas, there may be scope for policy to incentivise mobility of specific groups.
Subjects: 
race
ethnicity
wage differentials
spatial location
unequal distribution
multilevel models
JEL: 
J31
J71
R10
R23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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