The paper is based on data of individual work histories of the 1993/94 representative Roma survey in Hungary. First the … disappearance of full employment of Roma in the 1984-1994 period is documented by the use of a quasi cross-sectional macro model and … individual histories controlling the effects of gender, age and schooling. Finally, particular aspects of low employment of Roma …

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 collapse of the communist system in Hungary. Using Hungarian Roma data from …

for Roma children are only 60 and 40 per cent, respectively. Drop-outs and grade retentions are especially frequent in … secondary school career, but the relation is different among the children of Roma and uneducated families, indicating the … importance of other factors. -- Roma minority ; secondary school drop-outs …

This study quantifies the achievement gap between Roma and non-Roma students in Hungary and assesses the potential … magnitude is similar to the gap between African American and White students in the early 1980's. The gap between Roma and non-Roma … play a significant role. Besides differences in health, social disadvantages of Roma students lead to lower skills through …

of between-school segregation of Roma versus non-Roma students between 1980 and 2011. We calculate the measures of … associated with the size of the educational market and the share of Roma students, similar to the results from U.S. metropolitan … the number of schools and the share of Roma students. -- School segregation ; Roma minority ; disadvantaged students …

Using unique data from Hungary, we assess the gap in standardized test scores between Roma and non-Roma students and … mechanisms: first, the home environment of Roma children is less favorable for their cognitive development; second, Roma children … by social differences, and ethnicity seems to play no additional role. While their disadvantage in accessing high …

discrimination as typically measured, but its main impact is through lowering Roma educational attainment suggesting an additional …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 …

in 43 classes of seven secondary schools. Inter-ethnic dating preferences of Roma and non-Roma students were measured by … decrease same ethnicity preferences in dating. An additional tendency is that among majority students, those who are isolated …

We analyze the magnitude and the causes of the low formal employment rate of the Roma in Hungary between 1993 and 2007 …. The employment rate of the Roma dropped dramatically around 1990. The ethnic employment gap has been 40 percentage points … differences. -- Roma minority ; employment ; education ; Hungary …

This paper documents and decomposes the test score gap between Roma and non-Roma 8th graders in Hungary in 2006. Our … data connect national standardized test scores to an individual panel survey with detailed data on ethnicity and family … entirely accounted for by differences in parental education and income. -- test score gap ; Roma minority ; Hungary …