The paper decomposes average income differentials between Roma and non-Roma in
South East Europe into the component that can be explained by group differences in income-related
characteristics (characteristics effect), and the component which is due to differing returns to these
characteristics (coefficients or discrimination effect). The decomposition analysis is based on
Blinder (1973) and Oaxaca (1973) and uses three weighting matrices, reflecting the different
assumptions about income structures that would prevail in the absence of discrimination. Heckman
(1979) estimators control for selectivity bias. Using microdata from the 2004 UNDP household
survey on Roma minorities, the paper finds that a large share of the average income differential
between Roma and non-Roma is explained by human capital differences. Nevertheless, significant
labour market discrimination is found in Kosovo for all weight specifications and in Bulgaria and
Serbia for two weight specifications. (author's abstract)
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VIENNA/oai:epub.wu-wien.ac.at:5142 |
| Date | January 2011 |
| Creators | Milcher, Susanne |
| Publisher | The Romanian Regional Science Association |
| Source Sets | Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Article, PeerReviewed |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Relation | http://www.rrsa.ro/rjrs/V513.MILCHER.PDF, http://epub.wu.ac.at/5142/ |
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