Strategy Unit Report
Ethnic minorities in the labour market
This report was published on March 21st 2003. It examined a range of factors influencing labour market achievement of ethnic minority people. The Ethnic Minority Employment Task Force was created in response to the recommendations made in the report.
Follow this link to download the Strategy Unit Report on Ethnic Minorities in the Labour Market. 
(PDF: 1.45MB, Pages: 154).
This report examines the historical context of public policy and current
policy developments concerning immigrants and ethnic minorities in west European
labour markets.
Ethnic Minorities in the Labour Market: Comparative Policy Approaches (Western Europe). (PDF:120KB, Pages: 24.
A detailed explaination of how the Strategy Unit report was created.
Methodology . (PDF:108KB, Pages: 34).
This paper covers the history of affirmative action; its origin at the time of the broader civil rights
movement, its growth in the 1970s, and more recent political and legal reactions against it.
Affirmative action in the US . (PDF:101KB, Pages: 24).
This is an interim analytical report of the Performance and Innovation Unit project, Improving the Labour
Market Achievements of Ethnic Minorities in British Society. This interim report describes the problems experienced by ethnic minorities and triesto identify the reasons for them.
Ethnic
Minorities in the Labour Market Interim Analytical Report .
(PDF: 1.33MB, Pages: 230).
A report on American ethnic minority labour market disadvantage.
Theory and Research: the American literature .
(PDF: 97.2KB, Pages: 42).
A report on the labour market experience of the main visible minorities in Britain today, namely Black Caribbeans, Black Africans, Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis and Chinese.
Ethnic Minorities in the Labour Market - Overview of British research: trends, explanations and policy . (PDF: 60.3KB, Pages: 12).
This report describes the research priorities that follow from the analysis
of the existing literature on explanations of ethnic minority disadvantage.
It considers whether research using existing datasets will suffice and finally
turns to recommendations on future research that might be commissioned.
Ethnic
Minorities in the Labour Market - Future research . (PDF: 78.6KB, Pages: 19).
The Government's strategy to increase race equality and community cohesion
The cross government strategy "Improving opportunity, strengthening society" . (PDF: Pages: 54).
Ethnicity and Child Poverty
A document central to the founding of the Task Force and the forming of its objectives.
Ethnic and Child Poverty paper 
Ethnic and Child Poverty paper
