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CONFERENCE ON ETHNIC DIFFERENCES IN THE LABOUR MARKET
Tuesday 4 March 2008

Cockcroft Theatre, Manchester Conference Centre
University of Manchester

supported by The Leverhulme Trust as part of the project on Ethnic Differences in Employment Patterns: Gender and Generational Change

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P R O G R A M M E

10.00	Coffee and registration

10.20	Introduction

	Locality, immigration and employment Chair: Aneez Esmail, Associate Vice-President & Professor of General Practice, University of Manchester

10.30	Ludi Simpson CCSR, University of Manchester Employment outcomes: the relative roles of place, race and human capital - results from analysis of the 2001 Census for the Department of Work and Pensions. Summary Slides Key publications

11.00	Nina Glick Schiller Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures, University of Manchester Locality, immigration and employment: viewing policy issues from small scale cities Slides

11.30	Ken Clark Department of Economics, University of Manchester Ethnic employment targets: the role of human capital and recent immigration Slides

12.00	Discussion

12.15 - 13.00	Lunch

	Economic (in)activity, unemployment and qualifications
13.00	Angela Dale and Sameera Ahmed CCSR, University of Manchester Woman’s economic activity: the impact of life-stage and qualifications Slides Summary Key publications

13.30	Anthony Rafferty CCSR, University of Manchester Ethnic differences in under-employment and over-education Slides Summary Key publication

14.00	Gindo Tampubolon and James Nazroo School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester Dynamics of the ethnic patterning of unemployment and economic inactivity: a longitudinal analysis Slides Summary

14.30	Discussion

14.45	Tea

	Earnings and occupational segregation
15.15	Jo Lindley Department of Economics, University of Sheffield and Robert Elliott Department of Economics, University of Birmingham Immigrant Wage Differentials, Ethnicity and Occupational Segregation Slides Key publication

15.45	Yaojun Li Institute for Social Change, University of Manchester Labour market earnings of minority ethnic groups in Britain (1972-2005) Slides Key publications

16.15	Discussion

17.00	End