In terms of poverty (column 3), we find that bisexual men are 2.2 percentage points more likely to report household incomes below the federal poverty level than heterosexual men. Relative to the mean of this outcome, poverty rates are 16% higher for bisexual men. Bisexual women are 2.9 ...
We focus our research on this question: Does an expansion in the percentage of labour employed in the manufacturing sector lead to reductions in the poverty rate? While some research suggests that regional differences in the employment share of the manufacturing sector explain variation in poverty ...
while Thailand strives to promote its LGBT-friendly image, the LGBT community is still facing stigmatization and pressure to adhere to mainstream social norms (World Bank Group,2018). Moreover, LGBT people in the labor market are still being discriminated...
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Figure 1.Percentage of children living in poverty in industrialized nations using relative and absolute measures. Relative poverty rate is 50% of overall national median income for survey year. Absolute rate is $15299, based on 1995 US official poverty line for a two-parent family with two chil...
In a richly detailed study, Dao (2009) estimates the determinants of rural and national poverty, of income distribution, and of agricultural growth in developing countries and finds that the percentage of the rural population living below the national rural poverty line in a developing country is ...
Therefore, if these projections are accurate, the poverty rate was already 5.3 percentage points lower 2 months ago than at the beginning of Javier Milei’s presidency. I’m not a big believer in drawing sweeping conclusions based on less than a year’s worth of data, but I will say ...
Women made up much of the gap: Female literacy as a percentage of male literacy has increased from 59% in 1970 to 80% in 2000. The percentage of children not in the labor force has also risen to over 90% in 2000 from 76% in 1960. There are similar trends for electric power, cars...
Second, in all but one country shown, women are more likely to be poor than men; the exception is Sweden, where men are slightly more likely to be poor than women. In the USA, the gap between women's and men's poverty rates is the highest—about four percentage points. As would be...
We need to take into consideration that income will not always reflect the extent to which a family can afford necessities. So when measuring and accessing whether someone lives in poverty we need to take into account both low income and material deprivation. This is because an individual may ...