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Table 2 Summary of immigrant cohort period of entry to the UK, 1993-2009

From: From the bottom to the top: a more complete picture of the immigrant-native wage gap in Britain

 

Education (ratios)

Share of non-English-speaking

Share of non-white

 

Low/Medium

High/Medium

  

Pre-1955

2.0

1.3

0.74

0.06

1956-1960

1.9

1.0

0.64

0.27

1961-1965

1.8

1.1

0.73

0.45

1966-1970

1.3

1.1

0.78

0.53

1971-1975

1.0

1.6

0.82

0.54

1976-1980

0.8

1.9

0.82

0.54

1981-1985

0.9

1.9

0.80

0.53

1986-1990

0.7

1.8

0.76

0.52

1991-1995

0.6

2.2

0.79

0.54

1996-2000

0.5

2.2

0.73

0.45

2001-2005

0.4

2.0

0.82

0.51

2006-2009

0.3

2.0

0.88

0.37

N

13,707

20,079

24,096

26,517

  1. Source: Author’s LFS sample. Employed males only.