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On labour market discrimination against Roma in South East Europe

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. (authors' abstract)

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:VIENNA/oai:epub.wu-wien.ac.at:3960
Date10 1900
CreatorsMilcher, Susanne, Fischer, Manfred M.
PublisherWU Vienna University of Economics and Business
Source SetsWirtschaftsuniversität Wien
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypePaper, NonPeerReviewed
Formatapplication/pdf
Relationhttp://epub.wu.ac.at/3960/

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