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Wed 09 Sep 2008Black immigrants nine times more likely to be unemployed
Black immigrants are nine times more likely than white Irish nationals to be unemployed, a new survey has found.
The study of the experience of immigrants in the Irish labour market, published today by the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) and the Equality Authority, also found that immigrants are less likely to find professional or managerial jobs than their Irish peers and twice as likely to report discrimination in the workplace.
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