ETHNIC + INCOME/WEALTH

Question 1

according to ONS 2014 what’s the rate of low-income households in the UK?

Answer 1

• 2/5th of people from ethnic minorities live in low income households, 2x more than white people

Question 2

what did The Joseph Rowntree Foundation find about earnings for ethnic minorities?

Answer 2

• they have lower wages than white people
• men from ethnic minorities earn less than 10% compared to whites
  -Pakistani and Bangladeshi men experience more than 20% earning deficit
• for women differentials are around 5% highest deficit is black women at 18%
• Bangladeshi ethnic groups experience the worst of all others and have the highest poverty rate and only 25% have income that’s above the top half of incomes

Question 3

what did the NEP 2011 find about differences in median total wealth in different ethnic households?

Answer 3

• white households 2006/8 = £221,000 followed closely by Indians
• least Bangladeshi with only £15,000 total net wealth average

Question 4

what did Rowlingson and McKay find about managerial positions?

Answer 4

• white people in managerial occupations had greater wealth than ethnics in the same positions but British in intermediate and non-manual positions had less wealth than Asian families
• black people had the lowest than any others