, and low-paid. Widespread informality means that the poor neither benefit from the minimum wage policy nor from employment … protection legislation. They do not benefit from wage growth either, because their bargaining power is weak. Good jobs are so few …-paid laborers. The reduction of in-work poverty hinges on removing constraints to gainful employment in both supply side (better …

middle class overall, men and women will report a lack of education and appropriate skills as barriers to both employment and …