TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Gang, Ira N.
AU  - Schmillen, Achim
        TI  - Sometimes, Winners Lose: Economic Disparity and Indigenization in Kazakhstan
        PY  - 2014/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 8464
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp8464
        AB  - Several post-Soviet states have introduced policies to improve the relative economic, political or social position of formerly disadvantaged populations. Using one example of such policies – "Kazakhisation" in Kazakhstan – we investigate their impact on the comparative earnings of two directly affected groups, ethnic Russians and ethnic Kazakhs. Oaxaca decompositions show that Kazakhs are better endowed with income generating characteristics but receive lower returns to these characteristics than Russians. The second effect dominates and Kazakhs have comparatively lower average living standards. While "Kazakhisation" may have been successful in a narrow sense – i.e., by empowering Kazakhs to take on leading positions in the public sector – more broadly it has been a self-defeating policy as it has pushed ethnic Russians into jobs that often evolved into positions that (at least in monetary terms) are superior now to those held by Kazakhs.
        KW  - Kazakhstan
KW  - indigenization
KW  - decomposition
KW  - ethnicity
        ER  -