In view of rising wage inequality and increasing poverty, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become … ineffective in reducing poverty, even if it led to a substantial increase in hourly wages at the bottom of the wage distribution …

-temporal changes in poverty from year 1978 to 2003. Results are decomposed by region and household types, and the bootstrap method is … have the highest poverty risk. Most striking is a huge regional divide in poverty which only narrows slightly over the … period under investigation: the incidence and the intensity of poverty are substantially higher in the New states. A …

Germany. Although the reductionof income inequality and poverty were emphasized as policy goals of the of minimumwage …. Based on data from the German Socio-EconomicPanel we analyze changes in wage and income inequality, poverty, and … moreeffective in reducing inequality and poverty …