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The Employment of the Roma - Evidence from Hungary

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  • Gabor Kertesi

    (Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

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The paper is based on data of individual work histories of the 1993/94 representative Roma survey in Hungary. First the disappearance of full employment of Roma in the 1984-1994 period is documented by the use of a quasi cross-sectional macro model and the patterns of employment characteristics of the nineties are described. Then the erosion of employment is traced from individual histories controlling the effects of gender, age and schooling. Finally, particular aspects of low employment of Roma are accounted for, focusing on the role of low schooling, regional backwardness, and labour market discrimination.

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  • Gabor Kertesi, 2004. "The Employment of the Roma - Evidence from Hungary," Budapest Working Papers on the Labour Market 0401, Institute of Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies.
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    1. Gabor Kertesi & Gabor Kezdi, 2005. "Roma children in the transformational recession - Widening ethnic schooling gap and Roma poverty in post-communist Hungary," Budapest Working Papers on the Labour Market 0508, Institute of Economics, Centre for Economic and Regional Studies.
    2. Zoltán Kántor, 2011. "Ethnic or Social Integration? The Roma in Hungary," Chapters, in: Martin Kahanec & Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.), Ethnic Diversity in European Labor Markets, chapter 7, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    3. Fazekas, Karoly, 2004. "Low participation and regional inequalities : interrelated features of the Hungarian labour market. Case study," Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for Labour Market Research, Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany], vol. 37(4), pages 375-392.
    4. Fazekas, Karoly, 2004. "Low participation and regional inequalities : interrelated features of the Hungarian labour market. Case study," Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for Labour Market Research, Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany], vol. 37(4), pages 375-392.
    5. Fazekas, Károly, 2005. "Transition of the Hungarian Labour Market: Age, Skill and Regional Differences," Discussion Paper 241, Center for Intergenerational Studies, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University.

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    Keywords

    Economics of minorities and races; Discrimination; Regional inequalities; Transition;
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    JEL classification:

    • J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
    • J7 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination
    • R23 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population

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