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abstract: 'Purpose - This paper uses a unique survey of Roma and non-Roma in South
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Eastern Europe with the aim of evaluating competing explanations for the
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poor performance of Roma in the labour market.
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Design/methodology/approach - Following a descriptive analysis,
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econometric models are employed to identify the determinants of
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educational achievement, employment and wages for Roma and non-Roma.
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Limited information maximum likelihood (LIML) methods are employed to
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control for endogenous schooling and two sources of sample selection
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bias in the estimates. Non-linear and linear decomposition techniques
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are applied in order to identify the extent of discrimination.
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Findings - The key results are that: the employment returns to education
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are lower for Roma than for non-Roma whilst the wage returns are broadly
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similar for the two groups; the similar wage gains translate into a
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smaller absolute wage gain for Roma than for non-Roma given their lower
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average wages; the marginal absolute gains from education for Roma are
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only a little over one-third of the marginal absolute gains to education
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for majority populations; and, there is evidence to support the idea
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that a substantial part of the differential in labour market outcomes is
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due to discrimination.
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Research limitations/implications - The survey data employed do not
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include information on hours worked. In order to partially control for
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this, the analysis of wages is limited to employee wages excluding the
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self-employed.
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Practical implications - Explanations of why Roma fare so badly tend to
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fall into one of two camps: the ``low education{''''} and the
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``discrimination{''''} schools. The analysis suggests that both of these
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explanations have some basis in fact. Moreover, a direct implication of
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the lower absolute returns to education accruing to Roma is that their
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lower educational participation is, at least in part, due to rational
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economic calculus. Consequently, policy needs to address both low
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educational participation and labour market discrimination
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contemporaneously.
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Originality/value - This is the first paper to attempt to
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econometrically distinguish between discrimination and educational
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explanations of Roma disadvantage in the labour market in Central and
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Eastern Europe. The survey data employed are unique and appropriate for
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the task. Unusually for analyses dealing with returns to education, the
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LIML econometric approach employed controls for both endogenous
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schooling and two sources of sample selection bias.'
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affiliation: 'O''Higgins, N (Corresponding Author), Univ Salerno, I-84100 Salerno,
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Italy.
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Univ Salerno, I-84100 Salerno, Italy.'
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author: O'Higgins, Niall
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author_list:
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- family: O'Higgins
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given: Niall
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da: '2023-09-28'
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doi: 10.1108/01437721011042250
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files: []
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issn: 0143-7720
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journal: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANPOWER
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keywords: Ethnic minorities; Discrimination; Education; Europe; Labour market
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language: English
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note: '22nd Conference of the Italian-Association-of-Labour-Economists, Univ
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Parthenope, Naples, ITALY, SEP, 2007'
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number: '2'
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number-of-cited-references: '13'
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orcid-numbers: O'Higgins, Shane Niall/0000-0002-6627-5547
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pages: 163-187
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papis_id: 09e76c7f999b0177e69ad01a3502875d
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ref: Ohiggins2010itsnot
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researcherid-numbers: O'Higgins, Shane Niall/B-6063-2014
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times-cited: '16'
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title: '``It''s not that I''m a racist, it''s that they are Roma″ Roma discrimination
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and returns to education in South Eastern Europe'
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2023-10-01 08:15:07 +00:00
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type: article
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2023-09-28 14:46:10 +00:00
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unique-id: WOS:000278918500004
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usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
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usage-count-since-2013: '18'
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volume: '31'
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web-of-science-categories: Industrial Relations \& Labor; Management
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year: '2010'
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