Have British Jews fully assimilated in the UK Labour Market?
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This paper analyses the patterns of occupational attainment and earnings among the Jewish community in Britain using UK Labour Force Survey data (2002-2010). The findings suggest that although British-Jews cannot be distinguished from the majority main stream population of British-White in terms of their overall occupational attainment and earnings, it seems that they have managed to integrate through patterns of self-employment and concentration in the service sector economy, particularly in banking and financial services. It is argued that this self-employment profile is a Jewish strategy used to minimise dependency on majority group employers and by doing so to helping to escape any religious penalties.
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Shared under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
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4(2)
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121-148
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Link to article including link to pdf, Have British Jews fully assimilated in the UK Labour Market?
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Have British Jews fully assimilated in the UK Labour Market?. 2015: 121-148. https://archive.jpr.org.uk/10.17583/rimcis.2015.1490
