find that those who earn near-minimum wages are disproportionately female, unmarried and young, without post … labour force participation rates in the poorest households, minimum wage workers are most likely to be in middle-income … households. Using various plausible parameters for the effect of minimum wages on hourly wages and employment, I estimate the …

This paper considers educational investment, wages and hours of market work in an imperfectly competitive labour market …

With many countries considering the adoption of a system of earned income tax credits, it is useful to analyze how … different types of credits affect labor supply and earnings. This paper focuses on a 1999 reform to the UK tax credit system … they will have low earnings; single women; women in couples; and men in couples. Over a 15-month period, boosting the …

In this paper we investigate if there was a causal effect of changes in current and 'permanent' income on the health of … income and health, the fixed-effects methodology additionally enables us to control for individual unobservable heterogeneity … the panel if the unhealthy are more likely to drop out of the sample. Using cross-sectional variations in income and …

This paper seeks to evaluate the findings of cross-national research on the relationship between income inequality and …