The paper uses the first five waves of the British Household Panel Survey to explore the dynamics of the labour market experience of Britain's ethnic minorities relative to the white majority. The issue to be explored is labour market transitions. Ethnic minorities are shown to exhibit greater...

The analysis of the wage differential between Asian Americans and whites indicates that discrimination against Asians (except Japanese) is still substantial in the U.S. labour market. However, the second-generation Asians have, by large, achieved income parity with comparable whites.