Racial Minority Group Unemployment: Trends and Characteristics

This contribution seeks to examine the nature of registered unemployment in Britain amongst racial minority group workers as defined for the purposes of the Department of Employment's statistics, namely those born in the New Commonwealth Countries or whose parents were born there. Some preliminary analysis was published by the Department of Employment in 1975 and more recently by Shah. This paper seeks to up‐date and develop these findings further, with particular reference to the impact of the economic cycle upon the level and characteristics of racial minority group unemployment.