wage differential between ethnic Bulgarians and Turks increased from 0.1615 in 1986 to 0.2874 in 1993 and again to 0 ….4075 by 1997. Bulgarian gains over ethnic Turks in the early transition are related to both changes in the relative returns to … Turks began the transition with fewer years of education than the Bulgarians, and began to close the education gap over this …