employing rather restrictive assumptions that guarantee the conclusion that an increase in the minimum wage reduces poverty. In … contemporaneous changes in poverty rates. For the period 1983-96, we find indication of a poverty-reducing effect of minimum wages …

escape poverty. Research has focused on the risk factors associated with in-work poverty, but scholars know little about … longitudinal data sources (NLSY79, NLSY97, and PSID) to establish a typo logy of employment pathways out of in-work poverty and … grees of labor market attachment, economic vulnerability, and volatility. White men are most likely exit in-work poverty …