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The Roma or "Gypsies" are Europe's largest and poorest ethnic minority. Nearly 80 per cent of them live in the former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The Roma - Non-Roma educational gap, always substantial but slowly closing in the communist years, widened again after the...
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In this paper, we analyse the intergenerational transmission of poverty from Polish parents to their children through … children's educational attainment during the transition process of the 1990s. The relationship between family background and …. The results show that children's education is strongly related to household structure, parents' education, city size, and …
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Large and sudden economic and political changes, even if potentially positive, often entail enormous social and health costs. Such transitory costs are generally underestimated or neglected by incumbent governments. The mortality crisis experienced by the former communist countries of...
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