, 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 …

employment and earnings as a linkage between growth and poverty reduction, especially in low income countries. With the objective … of providing inputs into the policy discussion on how to enhance poverty reduction through increased employment and …