Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/106623 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
IOS Working Papers No. 345
Publisher: 
Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung (IOS), Regensburg
Abstract: 
Several post-Soviet states have introduced policies to improve the relative economic, political or social position of formerly disadvantaged populations. Using one example of such policies - "Kazakhisation" in Kazakhstan - we investigate their impact on the comparative earnings of two directly affected groups, ethnic Russians and ethnic Kazakhs. Oaxaca decompositions show that Kazakhs are better endowed with income generating characteristics but receive lower returns to these characteristics than Russians. The second effect dominates and Kazakhs have comparatively lower average living standards. While "Kazakhisation" may have been successful in a narrow sense - i.e., by empowering Kazakhs to take on leading positions in the public sector - more broadly it has been a selfdefeating policy as it has pushed ethnic Russians into jobs that often evolved into positions that (at least in monetary terms) are superior now to those held by Kazakhs.
Subjects: 
ethnicity
decomposition
indigenization
Kazakhstan
JEL: 
I32
O12
J15
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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