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Unemployment vulnerable Roma

The Roma youth is becoming one of the riskiest social categories endangered by (long-term) unemployment. This group especially did not experience a period of work duty and is becoming (long-term) unemployed without even having the minimum work experience at the labour market. The risky situation of young people is the result of the interaction of several aspects, not only age but also low or incomplete education (qualification), the absence of work experience, lacking work habits and professional experience, the lack of labour market requirements, affiliation to minority groups, etc. The long-term unemployment of young people can lead to the creation of a subculture of unemployment and in this case the effort to apply oneself at the official labour market is minimal. At the end of 1999, young Roma represented almost 25% (62,532) of the registered applicants for work, while more than 60% of young unemployed Roma is looking for work longer than three years. In particular, one should bear in mind the position of the Roma women, whose applicability at the labour market is made more difficult not only by discrimination based on their ethnicity but also based on gender.

Even if the Roma participate at the labour market, they are frequently employed at the secondary labour marked, whose characteristics are the instability of working position, i.e. threat of unemployment as well as worse working conditions, lower pay, etc. There are various barriers between the primary and secondary labour market, which significantly limit the movement of workers between these two labour markets. Among them we can find for example the differences in required qualification and related differences in the cultural and social capital of workers, discrimination based on racial prejudice or social stereotypes (Jurásková, 2004).

 

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