ABSTRACT
This chapter presents sociological interest in minority group's labour market disadvantage and occupational clustering with the focus in the economics literature on migrant's wages, in order to investigate pay gaps across four ethno-religious groups in Great Britain. Heath and Cheung gave a clear discussion of inferential evidence for employer discrimination in labour market, using analysis of attitudes and perceived discrimination as well as extent of ethnic penalties. Religious affiliation can be argued to influence employment outcomes, including pay, either through the social network provided by religious affiliation or through discrimination based on religion. Considering the intersection of generation with ethno-religious groups that display different patterns of advantage and disadvantage, we hypothesise three general types of labour market experience. The first striking finding to emerge from decomposition is that while Indian Hindus have an advantage in terms of mean pay compared to the White British Christian majority, their individual and job characteristics imply that their pay should be even higher.
