This Economics Dissertation Asks What Are The Underlying Causes of Ethnicity Wage Gaps In The United Kingdom - Econometrics

Ethnicity Wage Gaps Dissertation - Racial wage discrimination became illegal in the UK in 1965 with the Race Relations Act, in l

Dec 23, 2024 10:28

This Economics Dissertation Asks What Are The Underlying Causes of Ethnicity Wage Gaps In The United Kingdom - Econometrics

Ethnicity Wage Gaps Dissertation - Racial wage discrimination became illegal in the UK in 1965 with the Race Relations Act, in light of increased immigration after WWII. The law was later strengthened in 1968 and 1976. Yet despite criticism of the legislation in the wake of the Brixton riots of 1981, the inadequacy of labour market protections for ethnic minorities was not addressed until 2010 through the Equality Act. With little recent research into ethnicity pay gaps, unlike gender pay gaps (Metcalf, 2009), and even less research into how they have changed over time, this paper seeks to address this. Recent criticism of economic models by Spriggs (2020), in response to global anti-racism protests, has shown the need for a more objective approach to discrimination research.
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