Ethnic minority unemployment and local labour market conditions in Great Britain

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 833-853

  Fieldhouse, E A ^a,b   Gould, M I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHNIC MINORITY; LABOUR MARKET; MARKET CONDITIONS; UNEMPLOYMENT;

AREA ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL BACKGROUND; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; ECONOMIC FACTORS; ECONOMICS; EMPLOYMENT; ETHNIC GROUP; EUROPE; GEOGRAPHIC FACTORS; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE MANPOWER; HUMAN RESOURCES; LABOR FORCE; MACROECONOMIC FACTORS; METHODOLOGY; NORTHERN EUROPE; POPULATION; POPULATION AND POPULATION RELATED PHENOMENA; RESEARCH; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS; UNEMPLOYMENT; UNITED KINGDOM;

AREA ANALYSIS; CULTURAL BACKGROUND; DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ECONOMIC FACTORS; EMPLOYMENT; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPE; GEOGRAPHIC FACTORS; HUMAN RESOURCES; LABOR FORCE; MACROECONOMIC FACTORS; NORTHERN EUROPE; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; UNEMPLOYMENT; UNITED KINGDOM;

CULTURE; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ECONOMICS; EMPLOYMENT; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPE; GEOGRAPHY; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH MANPOWER; POPULATION; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; PREJUDICE; RESEARCH; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; STATISTICS; UNEMPLOYMENT;

UK;

PIERINAE;

EID: 0031658570     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a300833     Document Type: Article

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