analyze the effects of a higher minimum wage in terms of poverty rather than in terms of unemployment. Second, we extend the … perspective from unemployment to poverty leads to a considerable enrichment of the theory of the minimum wage. … equilibrium wage will cause unemployment. This paper makes two contributions to the basic theory of the minimum wage. First, we …

improve its social security system and provide basic support for all of its people. The unemployment shock has caused rural … social security would not only mitigate unemployment shocks in the short term, but it would also guarantee individuals and …

elasticity of poverty reduction. Growth does reduce poverty, but the author find no evidence for a direct effect of structural …

The relation between growth, inequality and poverty is the central theme of the paper. While the fast economic growth … under the neo-liberal policy regime helps reduce poverty, it increases inequality in income distribution in a way that … retards the progress in poverty-reduction. The empirical validity of this proposition is examined by tracing trends in per …

overall income poverty. However, in a vast country like India, poverty levels vary significantly across the different states …. In this paper, we analyze the differences between poverty at the state and national level, separately for the rural and …

Results from the NSS 61st Round Employment – Unemployment Survey, 2004-05 on the issue of fair access to social …

workers using micro data from the 2004-05 Employment and Unemployment Survey, NSSO, linked to state-level factors. [IGIDR WP …

In this paper, in order to study the impact of offshoring on sectoral and economy wide rates of unemployment, we … construct a two sector general equilibrium model in which unemployment is caused by search frictions. The model shows that wage … increases and sectoral unemployment decreases upon offshoring in the presence of perfect intersectoral labor mobility. If, as a …