the communist years, widened again after the collapse of the communist system in Hungary. Using Hungarian Roma data from … (necessary for college entrance). Our results indicate that long-term poverty of the Roma is strongly associated with their high … drop-out rate after 8th grade. Roma poverty has increased considerably with the massive layoffs of unskilled workers since …

ROMA are the main poverty risk groups in many of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. However, information on …. The survey is the first of its kind which addresses the ethnic dimension of poverty across countries, covering Roma in … Hungary, Bulgaria, and Romania. The paper finds that welfare among Roma households is significantly lower than that of non-Roma …

This paper uses birth records linked to census data to document health differences at birth between Roma and non-Roma … attainment, especially at higher levels, may have the highest potential to improve the relative health of Roma births. … children in Hungary between 1981 and 2010. It focuses on differences in average birth weight and average gestational age, as …

Roma account for almost one-tenth of the population in the Slovak Republic. They live mostly excluded from the general … population in concentrated settlements, separated neighbourhoods or ghettos. The majority live in poverty and face social … exclusion in almost all aspects of everyday life. Only a small share of Roma work, and a majority suffer from long spells of …