Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/295542 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
CReAM Discussion Paper Series No. 15/16
Publisher: 
Centre for Research & Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London, London
Abstract: 
We compare employment and earnings of British graduates belonging to ethnic minorities to those of white British six months and three and a half years after graduation. Six months after graduation all ethnic minority graduates are less likely than whites to be employed but those who have a job earn similarly or more than whites. University choice, parental background and area characteristics account for a large part of the ethnic differences in earnings but do not explain ethnic differences in employment. Three and a half years after graduation the ethnic advantages in earnings disappear while employment penalties reduce. Both employment probability and earnings increase over the career in a similar way for whites and minorities, with only few exceptions.
Subjects: 
School-to-work transitions
graduates
ethnic gaps
UK
longitudinal analysis
JEL: 
I24
J15
R23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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