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Racial and ethnic inequalities

Event 14 November 2022 at 14:00
At this online event we presented and discussed findings from a new report on racial and ethnic inequalities.
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Racial and ethnic inequalities

Presentation
At this online event we presented and discussed findings from a new report on racial and ethnic inequalities.

14 November 2022

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Race and ethnicity

Report
This chapter considers inequalities across ethnic groups in the United Kingdom and finds that there is no single story of advantage or disadvantage.

14 November 2022

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The impact of student loan minimum eligibility requirements

Report

We consider who would be affected by each of the proposed MERs, and then assess whether the introduction of a minimum eligibility requirement is likely to achieve the government’s stated aim of ensuring that ‘students undertaking degree study have attained the baseline skills required to engage with and benefit from the course’.

27 April 2022

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Social mobility and ethnicity

Report
This briefing note sheds greater light on how historical disadvantages are, or are not, replicated in today’s education system and labour market.

29 June 2021

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Ethnic diversity in UK economics

Report

In this briefing note, we examine the ethnic diversity of academic economists who provide much of the research that ultimately feeds into policymaking. We use data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) to look at which groups are more or less well represented as academic economic researchers.

26 October 2020

Catching up or falling behind? Geographical inequalities in the UK and how they have changed in recent years

Report

The COVID-19 crisis has brought to the fore increasing concerns about inequalities not only between different population groups – such as the gap between the rich and poor, young and old, and different ethnic groups – but also between people living in different places. Even prior to the crisis though, there was a sense that the UK is not only a highly geographically unequal country, but also an increasingly geographically unequal one.

3 August 2020

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COVID‐19 and ethnic inequalities in England and Wales

Journal article

This paper examines the pre-existing and new inequalities between ethnic groups in England and Wales exposed by the economic and public health crisis created by the COVID-19 pandemic. We draw on current mortality and case data, alongside pre-crisis labour force data, to investigate the relative vulnerability of different ethnic groups to adverse health and economic impacts.

3 June 2020

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The unequal effects of the pandemic

Podcast
In this episode, we take a close look at how the impact of coronavirus on communities is shaped by ethnic, gender and demographic inequalities.

14 May 2020

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Racial and ethnic sentencing differentials in the federal criminal justice system

Journal article

We add to the debate by examining the robustness of racial/ethnic sentencing gaps, by gender, when allowing for selection on unobservables. We do so in the context of federal criminal cases, considering 250,000 cases, and using a dataset containing a rich set of covariates relating to defendant and legal characteristics of cases.

4 April 2019

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Ethnic minorities substantially more likely to go to university than their White British peers

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All ethnic minority groups in England are now, on average, more likely to go to university than their White British peers. This is the case even amongst groups who were previously under-represented in higher education, such as those of Black Caribbean ethnic origin, a relatively recent change. These differences also vary by socio-economic background, and in some cases are very large indeed. For example, Chinese pupils in the lowest socio-economic quintile group are, on average, more than 10 percentage points more likely to go to university than White British pupils in the highest socio-economic quintile group. By contrast, White British pupils in the lowest socio-economic quintile group have participation rates that are more than 10 percentage points lower than those observed for any other ethnic group. These are amongst the findings of research undertaken by IFS researchers, funded by the Departments of Education and Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), and published by BIS.

10 November 2015

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Socio-economic, ethnic and gender differences in HE participation

Report

This report uses linked individual-level administrative data from schools in England and universities in the UK to document the relationships between socio-economic status, ethnicity and HE participation, and explore what drives these relationships.

10 November 2015