Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 222
Cover Image
Minimum Wages and Poverty in Developing Countries : Some Empirical Evidence.
Lustig, N.; Mcleod, D. - Brookings Institution - 1996
This paper examines the relationship between minimum wages and poverty in developing countries. We regress changes in … poverty indicators for a group of developing countries on minimum wage changes, changes in public spending, human capital … investment and other variables associated with changes in poverty. We find that higher minimum wages are associated with lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005775523
Cover Image
Stuck in the Tunnel: Is Globalization Muddling the Middle Class?
Birdsall, N.; Graham, C.; Pettinato, S. - Brookings Institution - 2000
Our objective in this paper is to assess how middle-income groups are faring with the global turn to the market. We suggest some simple measures of the middle-the size and income shares of households around the median (75/125%)-and their income status relative to wealthier counterparts. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005618749
Cover Image
Globalization and Redistribution: Feasible Egalitarianism in a Competitive World.
Bowles, S. - Brookings Institution - 2000
A reduction of impediments to international flows of goods, capital and professional labor is thought to raise the economic costs of programs by the nation state (and labor unions) to redistribute income to the poor and to provide economic security. But some of the more politically and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005474694
Cover Image
Do the poor want to work? A social-psychological study of work orientations
Goodwin, Leonard - 1972
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000556206
Cover Image
The new world of welfare
Blank, Rebecca M. (ed.); Haskins, Ron (contributor) - 2001
Schmidt -- Comment: Robert Topel -- Effects of Welfare Reform on Family Income -- and Poverty -- Ron Haskins -- Comment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001586475
Cover Image
No slack : the financial lives of low-income Americans
Barr, Michael S. (contributor) - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009539374
Cover Image
Job security in America : lessons from Germany
Abraham, Katharine G.; Houseman, Susan N. - 1993
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000866120
Cover Image
Minimum wages and poverty in developing countries : some empirical evidence
Lustig, Nora; McLeod, Darryl - 1996
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000957636
Cover Image
Reducing global poverty : the case for asset accumulation ; [this volume grew out of the Brookings Institution-Ford Foundation Workshop on Asset-Based Approaches to Poverty Reducti...
Moser, Caroline O. N. (contributor); Moser, Caroline O. (ed.) - 2007
Introduction / Caroline Moser -- Intergenerational asset accumulation and poverty reduction in Guayaquil, Ecuador, 1978 …-2004 / Caroline Moser and Andrew Felton -- Learning from asset-based approaches to poverty / Michael R. Carter -- The stages …-of-progress methodology and results from five countries / Anirudh Krishna -- Asset accumulation policy and poverty reduction / Caroline Moser …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003423471
Cover Image
Too poor for peace? : Global poverty, conflict, and security in the 21st century
Brainard, Lael (ed.) - 2007
"Investigates the complex and dynamic relationship between poverty and insecurity, exploring possible agents for change …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003426655