The results revealed that the average floor area consumption in renter/slum householdsSlum households is about two-third of the owner households, ceteris paribus. The reason for poor quality of renter/slum dwellings is not limited to differences in endowment levels, but also includes different '...
(2019) found that children’s views on gender equality in India are affected by their parents’ opinions. Using individual surveys from eight developing countries, Levtov et al. (2014) found that men with higher education, income, and experience of gender equality during their childhood tend to...
This paper studies educational inequality in the Philippines from 1950 to 2015, examining changes in the association between social origin and educational
Greater import exposure at the level of supplier industries, which includes broadly defined offshoring, created a positive but statistically insignificant employment effect in manufacturing industries and an insignificant negative effect in non-manufacturing industries. Studying data from France over the ...
The choice between income and consumption may also affect how we rank countries in terms of inequality. For example, some studies show lower inequality in India compared with other developing countries, including South Africa, Brazil, and China (e.g. Arnal & Forster, 2010; CSO, 2013). But ...
In a more general context, gender inequality includes but not limited to domestic violence, sexual abuse, unpaid caring work, higher hours of work, low social status, lack of access to reproductive rights and education23,24,25,26,27. Furthermore, the areas related to gender inequality include...
Testing for conditional β-convergence involves estimation of 13 equation (2), which includes as regressors not only initial level of per capita income but also some other variables which might account for the differences in steady-state income levels across states. Following Nagaraj et al. (1998...
This paper examines the effects of globalization (i.e., economic, social, and political) and sectoral growth shifts (i.e., changes in relative shares of agriculture, industry, and services) on income inequality in India from 1976 to 2012. We have used two unique datasets: the Standardized ...
This is faster than other Asian countries such as India, the Philippines, Thailand, and Viet Nam, which experienced increases of around 3% in the urbanization rate per year, during the same period. According to the latest 2010 Census, almost half of the Indonesian population lives in urban ...
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