The Economics of Race and Ethnicity

There have been significant improvements in the economic, and especially educational, success of some ethnic minorities in recent years. Substantial ethnic inequalities in multiple domains across the life course persist, and many continue across generations. The experience of minority groups has been quite different in terms of how far their economic outcomes have become similar to or different from the majority.

The ambition of this project is to establish new, authoritative and policy-relevant evidence and understanding in this contested area, by providing a detailed account of how ethnic economic inequalities emerge, evolve and are maintained across the life course at a level of detail and in ways not previously possible.

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