Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/33484 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1772
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We use the Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) household survey from post-conflict Kosovo to examine economic deprivation among Serbs and Albanians. Economic deprivation is measured by per capita household expenditure and by the incidence of poverty as captured by the headcount ratio. We examine the roles played by the stock of attributes and by the impact of these attributes on deprivation using Oaxaca-type decomposition methods. Empirical results for both decomposition analyses show differences in characteristics as well as returns to measured characteristics favor Serbs, even though Serbs have lower expenditures and higher poverty incidence than Albanians.
Subjects: 
poverty
ethnicity
decomposition
JEL: 
I32
O12
J15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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