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Description of the situation

Position at the labor market is, together with employment status and achieved education, one of the most important factors through which an individual incorporates himself into the social structure. Marginalization at the labor market is frequently the primary source of poverty and it ultimately means exclusion from the standard of living and life opportunities usual in the society (Ministry of Internal Affairs, 2015).

 

The most important reasons for discrimination include:

  • low educational and qualification level,
  • presence of hidden discrimination against the Roma ethnic group from the majority,
  • low level of accommodation, living conditions, unsatisfactory health,
  • persistently high level of (long-term) unemployment and related devastation of human capital and loss of work habits (Jurásková, 2004).

 

Source: http://www.aktuality.sk/clanok/230263/komentar-nemate-pracu-asi-ste-rom/      

 

Based on not so numerous available data and statistical data, it can be said that the unemployment of the Roma is very high, in some areas it reaches even 100%. As per the data of the National office of labour, which, up to 1999, recorded also the ethnic data on the unemployed, the Roma make up approx. 20% of all the unemployed.

A specific aspect of the Roma unemployment is the fact that it is mostly long-term unemployment, a permanent and uninterrupted period of unemployment, lasting longer than one year. A typical aspect is not only the high portion of the long-term unemployed among the Roma population but also a high average period of registration of the unemployed Roma (about 2.5 years).

Source: http://www.minv.sk/?zamestnanost_priorita.

Even though the high level of unemployment is a problem for a major part of the Roma minority, the citizens of the segregated villages are particularly disadvantaged since their chances of getting a job are in general limited to seasonal and occasional work in neighboring cities or villages and in the informal sector. In general, the Roma from geographically isolated and segregated areas have fewer opportunities to find jobs, because their communities are quite closed from the outside world. Therefore, the citizens of these communities have limited social contacts outside of their village, through which they could find work or get information on the possibilities how to find it. Social networks and links in a segregated community are strong but locally homogenous, which significantly narrows the assortment of information (Džambazovič- Gerbery, 2005, Jurásková, 2004).

 

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