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abstract: 'Purpose - This paper uses a unique survey of Roma and non-Roma in South
Eastern Europe with the aim of evaluating competing explanations for the
poor performance of Roma in the labour market.
Design/methodology/approach - Following a descriptive analysis,
econometric models are employed to identify the determinants of
educational achievement, employment and wages for Roma and non-Roma.
Limited information maximum likelihood (LIML) methods are employed to
control for endogenous schooling and two sources of sample selection
bias in the estimates. Non-linear and linear decomposition techniques
are applied in order to identify the extent of discrimination.
Findings - The key results are that: the employment returns to education
are lower for Roma than for non-Roma whilst the wage returns are broadly
similar for the two groups; the similar wage gains translate into a
smaller absolute wage gain for Roma than for non-Roma given their lower
average wages; the marginal absolute gains from education for Roma are
only a little over one-third of the marginal absolute gains to education
for majority populations; and, there is evidence to support the idea
that a substantial part of the differential in labour market outcomes is
due to discrimination.
Research limitations/implications - The survey data employed do not
include information on hours worked. In order to partially control for
this, the analysis of wages is limited to employee wages excluding the
self-employed.
Practical implications - Explanations of why Roma fare so badly tend to
fall into one of two camps: the ``low education{''''} and the
``discrimination{''''} schools. The analysis suggests that both of these
explanations have some basis in fact. Moreover, a direct implication of
the lower absolute returns to education accruing to Roma is that their
lower educational participation is, at least in part, due to rational
economic calculus. Consequently, policy needs to address both low
educational participation and labour market discrimination
contemporaneously.
Originality/value - This is the first paper to attempt to
econometrically distinguish between discrimination and educational
explanations of Roma disadvantage in the labour market in Central and
Eastern Europe. The survey data employed are unique and appropriate for
the task. Unusually for analyses dealing with returns to education, the
LIML econometric approach employed controls for both endogenous
schooling and two sources of sample selection bias.'
affiliation: 'O''Higgins, N (Corresponding Author), Univ Salerno, I-84100 Salerno,
Italy.
Univ Salerno, I-84100 Salerno, Italy.'
author: O'Higgins, Niall
author_list:
- family: O'Higgins
given: Niall
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1108/01437721011042250
files: []
issn: 0143-7720
journal: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANPOWER
keywords: Ethnic minorities; Discrimination; Education; Europe; Labour market
language: English
note: '22nd Conference of the Italian-Association-of-Labour-Economists, Univ
Parthenope, Naples, ITALY, SEP, 2007'
number: '2'
number-of-cited-references: '13'
orcid-numbers: O'Higgins, Shane Niall/0000-0002-6627-5547
pages: 163-187
papis_id: 09e76c7f999b0177e69ad01a3502875d
ref: Ohiggins2010itsnot
researcherid-numbers: O'Higgins, Shane Niall/B-6063-2014
times-cited: '16'
title: '``It''s not that I''m a racist, it''s that they are Roma″ Roma discrimination
and returns to education in South Eastern Europe'
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type: article
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unique-id: WOS:000278918500004
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '18'
volume: '31'
web-of-science-categories: Industrial Relations \& Labor; Management
year: '2010'