Ethnic conflict and economic disparity: Serbians and Albanians in Kosovo

Arbeitspapier

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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 1772

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Measurement and Analysis of Poverty ; Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development ; Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
• Subject: poverty ; ethnicity ; decomposition ; Sozialer Konflikt ; Ethnische Gruppe ; Armut ; Kosovo ; Soziale Ungleichheit

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar ; Gang, Ira N. ; Yun, Myeong-Su
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2005

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/33484
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET