Poverty rates in European countries have increased during recent decades and are particularly high in East European countries. Young children are especially vulnerable to poverty. Poverty in early childhood can have irreversible negative consequences for cognitive, social and emotional development, academic ...
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However, there are also large variations in the extent of youth poverty within countries, between what we might term younger youth (aged 16-19) and older youth aged (25-29). In the UK, poverty rates among younger youth are much higher than among older youth, suggesting that poverty among...
These studies generally find elevated rates of government assistance receipt for LGBT individuals. Tangentially, there is also large literature in public economics examining the delivery, take-up, receipt, and utilization of public assistance programs (e.g., SNAP, Unemployment Insurance). Nearly all ...
The objective of this paper is to analyse the determinants of poverty among workers in Europe by gender, using data for 25 countries obtained from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) database, for the period 2010 to 2013. The raw data show that the risk...
Inequalities in Suicide Rates in the European Union's Elderly: Trends and Impact of Macro-Socioeconomic Factors Between 1980 and 2006 OBJECTIVE: To study suicide rates in elderly people in the former European Community, known as the European Union (EU) since late 1993, to identify differe... ...
Poverty and inequality dynamics in the enlarged Europe: a comparative analysis of determinants of households' movements The paper analyses the static and dynamic risk of poverty in the enlarged European Union. In the first part of the paper an overview of cross-sectional poverty rates in 25 ...
Child poverty across the European Region Rates of child poverty vary widely across the Region. Among high-income countries relative poverty rates (children living in households with incomes less than 60% of the national median) vary from more than 20% in Greece, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Portugal...
(2021) examined the rates and predictors of suicidality (suicidal ideation and suicide attempts) among Thai LGBT persons; the majority of respondents were gay men (79.3%). The study indicated that 57.4% of the respondents suffered from clinically significant levels of stress and 39.2% of them ...
This paper studies income poverty among the 50+ population in 10 EU countries using newly collected data from the SHARE (Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe) project. A measure of the households disposable annual income is used. Relative income poverty range from 10 percent (in ...