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Human capital and social networks only partially explain Muslim employment gaps.

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aliases@hussain_framing_2017, loc. 276

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Human capital and social networks only partially explain Muslim employment gaps.

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A number of possible explanations have been suggested for the clear employment gap between Muslims and other groups. We will briefly touch upon other partial explanations before focusing on Islamophobia and discrimination in the labour market as the crux of this chapter. One explanation is that of human capital: given that most first-generation British Muslims arrived as migrants with lower socioeconomic class background compared with the wider population, the difference in education and human capital could account for differences in labour market outcomes (Connor and Koenig 2015). — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 276

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  • XREF: Rehearses the classic rival-to-discrimination explanations an Islamophobia framework must defeat, mirroring the definitional debate between cultural and structural accounts. — connects to: Muslim employment shortfalls persist even after controlling for time in education. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 231; Higher education rates fail to translate into employment parity for British Muslims — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 258; Muslim employment gaps persist beyond what full-time education explains — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us…, 226 (+7 more)

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