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"It's not that I'm a racist, it's that they are Roma" : Roma discrimination and returns to education in South Eastern Europe

O'Higgins, Shane Niall - 2009

This paper uses a unique survey of Roma and non-Roma in South Eastern Europe to evaluate competing explanations for the poor performance of Roma in the labour market. The analysis seeks to identify the determinants of educational achievement, employment and wages for Roma and non-Roma. LIML...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003860349

Intergenerational transfer of human capital under post-war distress : the displaced and the Roma in the former Yugoslavia

Kahanec, Martin; Yuksel, Mutlu - 2010

In this chapter, we investigate the effects of vulnerability on income and employment in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia using a unique 2004 UNDP dataset. Treating the collapse of the former Yugoslavia as a natural experiment, we compare three groups that have been...

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Roma women in Athenian firms : do they face wage bias?

Drydakis, Nick - 2011

In the current study, we analyze the effect of having a Roma background on women's wages. By utilizing the Athens Area Study random sample (2007-08) drawn from 16 multiethnic municipalities in which Roma live, we estimate that 66.1% of the wage differential between Roma and non-Roma female...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009307473

Ethnicity and gender in the labour market in Central and South East Europe

O'Higgins, Shane Niall - 2013

The Roma are both the largest 'minority' ethnic group in Central and South Eastern Europe and the one which suffered most from transition to the market. Still today, nearly forty years after the introduction of the EU's 1975 Discrimination Directive and with the end of the 'Roma Decade'...

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The consequences of cumulative discrimination : how special schooling influences employment and wages of Roma in the Czech Republic

O'Higgins, Shane Niall; Brüggemann, Christian - 2013

Unequal labour market outcomes between Roma and non-Roma have typically been explained by either the low level of educational attainment on the one hand or labour marked discrimination on the other - or both. A number of studies have found that significant labour market inequalities persist even...

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Segregation and fertility : the case of the Roma in Serbia

Battaglia, Marianna; Chabé-Ferret, Bastien; … - 2017

We study the effect of residential segregation on fertility for the socially excluded and marginalized Roma ethnic minority. Using original survey data we collected in Serbia, we investigate whether fertility differs between ethnically homogeneous and mixed neighbor- hoods. Our results show that...

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Community influence as an explanatory factor why Roma children get little schooling

Stark, Oded; Berlinschi, Ruxanda - 2020

Parents who experience poverty and who want to provide their children with an escape route can be expected to encourage and support their progeny's education. The evidence that Roma parents behave differently is unsettling. In this paper we test empirically an explanation for that behavior. The...

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Roma and bureaucrats : a field experiment on ethnic and socioeconomic discrimination

Mikula, Stepan; Montag, Josef - 2023

This paper tests for discriminatory treatment of the Roma minority by public officials in the Czech Republic at the stage of initial contact preceding a potential application for unemployment benefit. Our correspondence experiment facilitates testing for the presence of each of two intertwined...

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Returns to education in four transition countries : quantile regression approach

Staneva, Anita; Arabsheibani, Gholam Reza; Murphy, Philip - 2010

from Bulgaria, Russia, Kazakhstan and Serbia in 2003, we show that the return to education is heterogeneous across the …

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External monetary shocks and monetary integration : evidence from the Bulgarian currency board

Minea, Alexandru; Rault, Christophe - 2011

Starting July the 1st 1997, Bulgaria adopted a Currency Board (CB) monetary system. This paper aims at investigating if … better (with respect to other CEEC) monetary integration of Bulgaria with the European Monetary Union (EMU). Since Bulgarian … terms of integration of Bulgaria into the EMU. -- currency board ; Bulgaria ; monetary shocks ; ECB interest rate ; FED …

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