Qualified but not legal

Only 53% of young men of Caribbean origin with qualifications are in employment, compared with 81% of white men in the same 18-30 age group, according to a study for the Department for Education and Employment (DfEE).

Meanwhile the unemployment rate among the black men in the survey was significantly higher, at 32%, than the 8% rate recorded for white men.

The study also found that young Caribbean men were less likely than their white counterparts to have managerial and professional jobs and more likely to be in clerical, secretarial and sales occupations.