Poverty and the Determinants of Welfare for Roma and Other Vulnerable Groups in Southeastern Europe

Milcher, Susanne

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“…According to these figures, the percentage of Roma in the total population was close to 10 percent in Bulgaria and Slovakia, between 4 and 7 percent in Hungary, Macedonia, Romania and Serbia and around 2 percent in Albania and the Czech Republic. Little representative evidence exists on the wellbeing of the Roma, but all available data indicate widespread poverty, low formal employment, low education, poor health and social exclusion in all countries (Higgins and Ivanov, 2006; Milcher, 2006; Ringold et al. , 2005; UNDP, 2002).…”

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Roma employment in Hungary after the post-communist transition1

Kertesi¹,

Kézdi²

2011

Economics of Transition

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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. factor behind the gap, the number of children is important for female employment, and geographic differences play little role once education is controlled for. Conditional on employment, the gap in earnings is 0.3, and half of it is explained by educational differences. Terms of use: Documents in JEL: J15, J21, J70Keywords: Roma minority, employment, education, Hungary Acknowledgement:Funding from OTKA-68523K project is gratefully acknowledged. 4 Roma foglalkoztatás a posztkommunista rendszerváltás utánKertesi Gábor -Kézdi Gábor Tárgyszavak: roma foglalkoztatás, roma iskolázottság JEL: J15, J21, J70 Köszönetnyilvánítás:Köszönettel tartozunk az OTKA-68523K projektnek kutatásunk támogatásáért.5

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Roma employment in Hungary after the post-communist transition1

Kertesi¹,

Kézdi²

2011

Economics of Transition

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“…Roma people are often poor, with low levels of education, unskilled, with limited job opportunities (Milcher, 2006;Mizsei, 2006;Roma Education Fund, 2007), lacking hygiene and basic health care, dependent on social assistance, actively looking for benefits, limited contributing to social welfare, distrusting to the out-groups (Mizsei, 2006).…”

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Nostalgia and Sentimentality Among Minority Elderly People (Bulgarian Roma People and Hungarians Living in Romania)

Stoyanova¹,

Doseva²,

Virginás-Tar³

2015

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Nostalgia and sentimentality are very typical for the old age. There are some characteristics that are perceived as typical for the elderly people in the different cultures, such as being dependent, and needing long-term care. There are also some similarities between the population tendencies in Bulgaria and Romania. The simultaneously acceptance in European Union of both countries also suggests the existence of some similar attitudes towards the past among elderly minority people in both countries. The hypothesis of the study was that together with some similarities, the elderly people from both ethnic minorities in the two countries would differ cross-culturally in their sentimentality and nostalgia related to the past. Sentimentality and nostalgia in elderly minority people (26 Roma people in Bulgaria and 21 Hungarians in Romania) were measured by means of a questionnaire created by Gergov & Stoyanova (2013). The results indicated that the Hungarian minority in Romania was more sentimental and nostalgic than the Roma minority in Bulgaria. More thoughts about the past reported the minority young elders than the minority oldest old. The females from the minority groups were more sentimental than the males from the minority groups. Higher sentimentality and nostalgia among elderly Hungarians could be explained by their higher conservatism and more satisfaction with the hystorical past than Roma people. Roma people living in institutions felt a sense of stability in their present and they shared some positive expectations for the future.

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“…As the social determinants of health have become better understood over the last decade, an increasing evidence has emerged that poverty is more prevalent amongst the Roma than in the majority populations. It is therefore clear that the Roma people have considerable health needs that ought to be addressed (1,2). It should be noted that the health inequalities of the Roma discussed in this literature review are those of the predominant Roma population that is living in segregated communities isolated from the majority population.…”

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Health Inequalities of the Roma in Europe: a Literature Review

Parekh

Rose²

2011

Cent Eur J Public Health

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The Roma are the most populous marginalised community in Europe and have some of the greatest health needs. There is a higher prevalence of communicable and non-communicable diseases within the community and significantly shorter life expectancies than national averages. Efforts by governments across Europe to address these health inequalities have been relatively weak and the Roma suffer poorer access to health care, education and employment in every country that they inhabit in comparison to the majority population. As the socioeconomic determinants of health become better understood over the past decade, it is becoming clear that societies with greater inequalities are less healthy overall. It is important for public health across Central and Eastern Europe that the health needs of the Roma are prioritised by governments concerned. We provide a review of the literature on the health inequalities of the Roma community in Europe.

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Poverty and the Determinants of Welfare for Roma and Other Vulnerable Groups in Southeastern Europe

Cited by 24 publications

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Roma employment in Hungary after the post-communist transition1

Roma employment in Hungary after the post-communist transition1

Nostalgia and Sentimentality Among Minority Elderly People (Bulgarian Roma People and Hungarians Living in Romania)

Health Inequalities of the Roma in Europe: a Literature Review

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