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Ethnic Minorities and Equal Treatment: The Impact of Gender, Equal Opportunities Policies and Trade Unions

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  • Mike Noon

    (Business School, De Montfort University, Leicester, mnoon@dmu.ac.uk)

  • Kim Hoque

    (School of Management, University of Bath, d.k.hoque@bath.ac.uk)

Abstract

The article examines whether ethnic minority employees report poorer treatment at work than white employees, and evaluates the impact of three key features - gender differences, formal equal opportunities policies and trade union recognition. The analysis reveals that ethnic minority men and women receive poorer treatment than their white counterparts. In addition, there is evidence to suggest that ethnic minority women receive poorer treatment than ethnic minority men. Equal opportunities policies are effective in ensuring equal treatment, but the presence of a recognised trade union is not. White men and women in unionised workplaces enjoy better treatment than their white counterparts in non-union workplaces, but the same is not true for ethnic minorities. By contrast, there is very little evidence of unequal treatment in non-union workplaces.

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  • Mike Noon & Kim Hoque, 2001. "Ethnic Minorities and Equal Treatment: The Impact of Gender, Equal Opportunities Policies and Trade Unions," National Institute Economic Review, National Institute of Economic and Social Research, vol. 176(1), pages 105-116, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:niesru:v:176:y:2001:i:1:p:105-116
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    1. Timothy J. Hatton, 2011. "The Social and Labor Market Outcomes of Ethnic Minorities in the UK," Chapters, in: Martin Kahanec & Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Ethnic Diversity in European Labor Markets, chapter 13, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    2. Jenkins, Andrew & Wolf, Alison, 2002. "Why do employers use selection tests? Evidence from British workplaces," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 19503, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    3. Martin Kahanec & Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), 2011. "Ethnic Diversity in European Labor Markets," Books, Edward Elgar Publishing, number 13572.

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