ABSTRACT
In this chapter we examine the relationship between the cultural and social integration of ethnic minorities and their structural integration. Or, to put it another way are the more culturally and socially integrated minority groups also socio-economically better off? To analyse whether there is a significant relation between these two forms of integration for ethnic minorities in the Netherlands, we compare data for two ethnic categories, each made up of two separate ethnic groups. The ethnic categories are Caribbean and Mediterranean and the groups Surinamese and Antilleans and Turks and Moroccans. The available data make this relationship a difficult one to reveal, as different outcomes have been measured for different ethnic groups and for the same group at different times. However, although the measurement points chosen may seem arbitrary; they reflect available data, and by using regression equations we can still uncover what we are interested in, the causality in this relationship. But first, we will refer briefly to some theoretical contributions to the field.
