On labour market discrimination against Roma in South East Europe

Milcher, Susanne; Fischer, Manfréd M.

doi:10.1111/j.1435-5957.2011.00354.x

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“…After accounting for low levels of educational attainment amongst Roma, several studies found persisting labour market inequalities between Roma and non-Roma that are attributed to discrimination. Applying Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition analysis to household surveys, several studies found labour market discrimination against Roma in Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary (Revenga et al 2002), Bulgaria, Kosovo and Serbia (Milcher 2011), Albania and Kosovo (Milcher & Fischer 2011). Applying logistic regression to census data, Kosko (2012) found a "stunningly high level of unexplained difference in employment outcomes" (ibid, p. 437) showing that Romanian Roma with the same level of education attained were more frequently unemployed and in unskilled, low wage employment.…”

Section: Roma the Labour Market And Special Schoolingmentioning

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The Consequences of Cumulative Discrimination: How Special Schooling Influences Employment and Wages of Roma in the Czech Republic

O’Higgins

Brüggemann

2014

European Educational Research Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu 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 after the low levels of educational attainment amongst Roma have been accounted for. Here we look at the role of special schooling in driving labour market inequalities between Roma and non-Roma in the Czech Republic. We confirm the findings of other studies that Roma face significant differences in labour market outcomes which cannot be explained in terms of educational attainment. Moreover, we find that the segregation of Roma into special remedial schools for the mentally disabled influences both labour market outcomes and the level of educational attainment; the latter effect being particularly strong. Special school attendance explains a small part of Roma labour market discrimination as typically measured, but its main impact is through lowering Roma educational attainment suggesting an additional discriminatory element in Roma/non-Roma labour market outcomes which is more typically ascribed to 'justified' Roma/non-Roma educational differences. Thus, we propose that labour market inequality should not only be understood as result of low attainment and labour market discrimination per se but as a complex outcome of cumulative discrimination. In contrast to previous papers which take a parametric approach assuming common support between Roma and non-Roma, the nonparametric matching approach employed here explicitly takes into consideration the substantial differences in educational attainment observable between Roma and non-Roma. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SJEL Classification: J15, I24

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Section: Roma the Labour Market And Special Schoolingmentioning

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The Consequences of Cumulative Discrimination: How Special Schooling Influences Employment and Wages of Roma in the Czech Republic

O’Higgins

Brüggemann

2014

European Educational Research Journal

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“…Using Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition of the Roma vs. non-Roma employment gap (expressed in percentage points) for Western Balkan countries, Robayo-Abril and Millán show that the large employment gap is mostly explained by differences in education. Milcher and Fischer's (2011) findings for Serbia also show that differences in measured characteristics (gender, education, high skills occupation, work experience, or full-time job) and not labour market discrimination against Roma are the dominant reason for the shortfall in the incomes of Roma, although discrimination may also have indirect influence on incomes. On the other hand, O'Higgins (2009) finds that there is a considerable difference in the employment returns to education between Roma and non-Roma in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, North Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, Romania, and Kosovo*.…”

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Regional economic losses from excluding Roma women from labour market in Serbia

Tanasković,

Jandrić,

Molnar

2023

Industrija

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In this paper, we calculate the economic costs of labour market exclusion of Roma women at the NUTS 2 level in Serbia in terms of output and fiscal benefits. The approach relies on the analysis of a scenario in which there are no differences in the level of wages or in labour force participation and employment rates between Roma and non-Roma labour market participants. We use Labour Force Survey (LFS) data from 2019 as a basis for the comparison of the Roma and non-Roma in terms of expected gross earnings for working-age individuals provided they are employed. The results show that the total economic loss (output + fiscal) due to the exclusion of Roma women from the labour market in Serbia amounts to about 197.7 million euros on an annual basis. Of that, 70.5% (139.3 million euros) come from output/productivity losses, and 29.5% (58.4 million euros) from fiscal losses. The largest contribution to total economic losses comes from the South and Eastern Serbia region (37.25%), followed by the Vojvodina region (28.25%), the Belgrade region (24.03%) and the Šumadija and Western Serbia region (10.46%).

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“…It is known that some migrants from Romania and Bulgaria are motivated by poverty, although the number of migrants who move for this reason is unknown. As well, a small but unknown proportion of migrants are Roma, a minority that is highly discriminated against in Southeast Europe (Masseria et al 2010;Milcher, Fischer 2011;McGarry 2012).…”

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Re-Imagining the City: Municipality and Urbanity Today from a Sociological Perspective

Smagacz‐Poziemska¹,

Frysztacki²,

Bukowski³

2018

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vice or recreational spaces, communication routes, urban equipment, etc.). Th erefore the city comprises not only a fabric, but also a laboratory of social realms with their structural-material consequences of varying scale, range, and signifi cance.Such a diverse array of aff airs and problems makes some concessions as to the form of their analysis and description. Th is book is not a mere collection of academic texts. Th e reader will fi nd here regular scientifi c articles of theoretical, empirical or methodological nature along with a number of texts30 Małgorzata Dymnicka References

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On labour market discrimination against Roma in South East Europe

Abstract: Abstract. This paper directs interest on country-specific labour market discrimination Roma The results obtained indicate the presence of labour market discrimination in Albania and Kosovo, but point to its absence in Bulgaria, Croatia, and Serbia.

Cited by 12 publications

References 22 publications

The Consequences of Cumulative Discrimination: How Special Schooling Influences Employment and Wages of Roma in the Czech Republic

The Consequences of Cumulative Discrimination: How Special Schooling Influences Employment and Wages of Roma in the Czech Republic

Regional economic losses from excluding Roma women from labour market in Serbia

Re-Imagining the City: Municipality and Urbanity Today from a Sociological Perspective

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