The first major cross-national study of ethnic minority disadvantage in the labour market. Standard analyses, using the most authoritative datasets, enable the reader to make precise comparisons. The study reveals that most groups of non-European ancestry continue to experience substantial ethnic penalties in the second and later generations.

The Comparative Study of Ethnic Minority Disadvantage ; Diversity and Mobility in Australia ; Continuing Ethnic Segmentation in Austria ; Down and Out: The Children of Migrant Workers in the Belgian Labour Market ; Inclusion for all but Aboriginals in Canada ; Is French Society Truly Assimilative? Immigrant parents and offspring on the French Labour Market ; Educational Hurdles on the way to Structural Assimilation in Germany ; Instant Absorption of Immigrants and Persistent Exclusion of Arab Citizens in Israel ; Equal Opportunities or Social Closure in the Netherlands? ; The Legacy of Apartheid: Racial Inequalities in the New South Africa ; The Farther they Come, the Harder they Fall? First and Second Generation Immigrants in the Swedish Labour Market ; Nice Work if You can Get it: Ethnic Penalties in Great Britain ; Progress in Reducing Catholic Disadvantage in Northern Ireland ; The New Second Generation at the Turn of the New Century: Europeans and non-Europeans in the US labour market ; Crossnational Patterns and Processes of Ethnic Disadvantage