On Labour Market Discrimination Against Roma in South East Europe

32 Pages Posted: 13 Jan 2011

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Manfred M. Fischer

Vienna University of Economics and Business - Institute for Economic Geography and GIScience, Department of Socioeconomics

Susanne Milcher

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Date Written: October 5, 2010

Abstract

This paper directs interest on country-specific labour market discrimination Roma may suffer in South East Europe. The study lies in the tradition of statistical Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition analysis. We use microdata from UNDP’s 2004 survey of Roma minorities, and apply a Bayesian approach, proposed by Keith and LeSage (2004), for the decomposition analysis of wage differentials. This approach is based on a robust Bayesian heteroscedastic linear regression model in conjunction with Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) estimation. The results obtained indicate the presence of labour market discrimination in Albania and Kosovo, but point to its absence in Bulgaria, Croatia, and Serbia.

Keywords: Labour Market Discrimination, Income Differential Decomposition, Bayesian Regression Model, Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) Estimation, Roma, Europe

JEL Classification: J15, J31, J71, C11, O52

Suggested Citation

Fischer, Manfred M. and Milcher, Susanne, On Labour Market Discrimination Against Roma in South East Europe (October 5, 2010). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1739103 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1739103

Manfred M. Fischer (Contact Author)

Vienna University of Economics and Business - Institute for Economic Geography and GIScience, Department of Socioeconomics ( email )

Welthandelsplatz 1, D4
Vienna, 1020
Austria

Susanne Milcher

affiliation not provided to SSRN ( email )

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