Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/44188 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5108
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
In this chapter, we investigate the effects of vulnerability on income and employment in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia using a unique 2004 UNDP dataset. Treating the collapse of the former Yugoslavia as a natural experiment, we compare three groups that have been differently affected by the wars and post-war distress: the majority as the benchmark, the ex-ante and ex-post vulnerable Roma people, and the ex-ante equal but ex-post vulnerable refugees and internally displaced people (RIDPs). Our findings reveal significant negative effects of vulnerability on income and employment. RIDPs seem to be about as negatively affected as Roma across the four states, which indicate that vulnerability inflicted by relatively recent displacement may have similar effects as vulnerability rooted deep in the past. When we look at education as one of the key determinants of socio-economic outcomes, both groups exhibit similarly substandard educational outcomes of children and significant inertia in intergenerational transfer of human capital. Our findings highlight the need for policies that not only tackle vulnerability as such, but address the spillover effects of current vulnerability on future educational attainment.
Subjects: 
vulnerability
labor market
education
Roma
refugees
internally displaced people
discrimination
integration
JEL: 
I21
I12
J24
N34
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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