Young people from many of the UK's minority ethnic communities have succeeded in securing managerial and professional jobs at a faster rate than young white people from a similar social class level, according to a report for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. But it found that while educational achievements had helped children of working class parents in the Caribbean, African, Chinese and Indian communities, those from the Pakistani and Bangladeshi communities had shown 'lower levels of upward mobility' than whites. The study analysed data from the Office for National Statistics longitudinal study of 140,000 children who grew up between the 1960s and 1980s. The report can be downloaded at www.jrf.org.uk.
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