CONTEXT Given that many communities are implementing community-wide initiatives to reduce teenage pregnancy or childbearing, it is important to understand the effects of a community's characteristics on adolescent birthrates. METHODOLOGY Data from the 1990 census and from California birth certificates were obtained for zip codes in California. Regression analyses were conducted on data from z...

globalization effects on social security systems and on social expenditures in different countries will be analyzed in this chapter. our consentration is yet on anglo-saxon countries . but it is assumed that many offer countries are under the same pressure of globalization on their social security expenses as the anglo-saxon countries . this will be examined later in another chapter. in previou...

Poverty has plagued many rural farming household in Nigeria. Despite several approaches adopted by Government to ameliorate poverty among its citizenry, the number of people living in impoverished condition has continued to rise. This study therefore aimed at assessing the poverty alleviation strategies used among farming household in Ondo State, Nigeria. A validated interview schedule and ques...

This study examines bank robberies across the fifty states and the District of Columbia for the decade of the 1990s. It was determined that bank robberies are positively associated with the ratio of police officers to population, and the unemployment rate. Bank robberies are also negatively associated with the poverty rates across states and over time. It was hypothesized that bank robberies we...

Unemployment, corruption, non-diversification of the economy, income inequality, laziness, and a poor education system can be considered to be some of the key factors contributing to poverty in Nigeria. This article analyzes these factors after reviewing some of the most recent contributions to the literature and summarizing some of the key dimensions of poverty in Nigeria. It also shows that t...

The bulk of research on labour market conditions in Pakistan has concentrated on the economic activity rate, the number of employed persons or the unemployment rate at a particular point in time (Nasir, 2001). These stock measures of labour market situation are useful from a policy viewpoint as they give a broad indication of the dimension of the problem. For instance, the recent labour force s...

This study examines the robustness of poverty measures for Poland in the 1990s to employed methods. At least two definitions or techniques of estimation are applied to each of the following components of poverty measures: (1) household well-being; (2) poverty line; (3) equivalence scales; and (4) poverty index. Furthermore, groups at risk of poverty are selected by means of decomposition of the...

This study aims to analyze the effect of COVID-19 pandemic on unemployment, poverty, and income inequality in Indonesia. Using panel data from 34 provinces Indonesia for period 2018.S1-2020.S2, econometric analysis model applied is regression with dummy variables. The discovered that Covid-19 significantly impacts increasing urban poverty unemployment rates, but not rural poverty. time-series d...