Using primary data from a union council of Punjab (Dhamyal), this article analyses the poverty and inequality at the … incidence of poverty among the seven villages of the union council. The highest magnitude of poverty in terms of incidence … villages have high concentration of poverty as compared to its population share in the community. Income distribution by …

around a constant income distribution to illustrate why standard measures of poverty, built on the intuitions of unchanging …

analyze the effects of a higher minimum wage in terms of poverty rather than in terms of unemployment. Second, we extend the … in which a higher minimum wage raises poverty, others where it reduces poverty, and yet others in which poverty is … unchanged. We characterize precisely how the poverty effect depends on four parameters: the degree of poverty aversion, the …