Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/108456 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Budapest Working Papers on the Labour Market No. BWP - 2010/9
Publisher: 
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Economics, Budapest
Abstract: 
We analyze the magnitude and the causes of the low formal employment rate of the Roma in Hungary between 1993 and 2007. The employment rate of the Roma dropped dramatically around 1990. The ethnic employment gap has been 40 percentage points for both men and women and has stayed remarkably stable. Differences in education are the most important factor behind the gap, the number of children is important for female employment, and geographic differences play little role once education is controlled for. Conditional on employment, the gap in earnings is 0.3, and half of it is explained by educational differences.
Subjects: 
Roma minority
employment
education
Hungary
JEL: 
J15
J21
J70
ISBN: 
978-615-5024-28-3
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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