The consequences of cumulative discrimination. How special schooling influences employment and wages of Roma in the Czech Republic.

Autor/inn/en	O'Higgins, Niall; Brüggemann, Christian
Titel	The consequences of cumulative discrimination. How special schooling influences employment and wages of Roma in the Czech Republic.
Quelle	Bonn: IZA (2013), [19 S.] PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Discussion paper series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit. 7668
Beigaben	grafische Darstellungen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft; Bildungsforschung; Diskriminierung; Arbeitslosigkeit; Arbeitsmarktchance; Sonderschule; Exklusion; Minderheit; Löhne; Tschechische Republik
Abstract	Unequal labour market outcomes between Roma and non-Roma have typically been explained by either the low level of educational attainment on the one hand or labour marked discrimination on the other - or both. A number of studies have found that significant labour market inequalities persist even after the low levels of educational attainment amongst Roma have been accounted for. Here [the authors] look at the role of special schooling in driving labour market inequalities between Roma and non-Roma in the Czech Republic. [They] confirm the findings of other studies that Roma face significant differences in labour market outcomes which cannot be explained in terms of educational attainment. Moreover, [zhe authors] find that the segregation of Roma into special remedial schools for the mentally disabled influences both labour market outcomes and the level of educational attainment; the latter effect being particularly strong. Special school attendance explains a small part of Roma labour market discrimination as typically measured, but its main impact is through lowering Roma educational attainment suggesting an additional discriminatory element in Roma/non-Roma labour market outcomes which is more typically ascribed to 'justified' Roma/non-Roma educational differences. Thus, [the authors] propose that labour market inequality should not only be understood as result of low attainment and labour market discrimination per se but as a complex outcome of cumulative discrimination. In contrast to previous papers which take a parametric approach assuming common support between Roma and non-Roma, the non-parametric matching approach employed here explicitly takes into consideration the substantial differences in educational attainment observable between Roma and non-Roma. (Orig.).
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Update	2014/2