consistent with the conclusions reached by prior research, including Holzer's (2008) review of that earlier evidence. Living wage … in urban poverty. -- living wage ; wages ; employment ; poverty …

Recent studies find in-work poverty to be a pan-European phenomenon. Yet in-work poverty has come to the fore as a … alleviating poverty among workers, both the policy options and constraints facing Continental European policymakers are … impact on in-work poverty but in settings where wages are compressed, as in Belgium, a severe trade-off between coverage and …

Proponents of a basic income (BI) claim that it could bring significant reductions in financial poverty, on top of many … comparative two-country setting, we show that the potential poverty-reducing impact of BI strongly depends on exactly how and …-economic context in which it is introduced. Some versions of BI could potentially help to reduce poverty but always at a significant …

the least as an ironclad protection against poverty, if set high enough. It is hard to know with any certainty what a …-)simulation modelling are very encouraging. The estimated first-round effects on poverty are for the most part disappointing, especially in …

-work poverty was seen as a non-issue in countries with extensive labour protections, especially in countries with minimum wages at … organized labour and proper regulatory correction has turned out to be completely wrong. In-work poverty exists in all rich … economies. But what, exactly, do we mean by in-work poverty? How is it related to labour market trends and also to policies? And …

In-work transfers are often seen as a good trade-off between redistribution and efficiency, as they alleviate poverty … poverty effects of alternative policies are analyzed thanks to counterfactual simulations built using a micro-simulation model … existing scheme, the Family Income Supplement (FIS), and of its replacement by the refundable tax credit in force in the UK …

family allowances for dependent employees and contingent workers thus ensuring tax revenue neutrality. We show that our EITC … WTC is more effective than the EITC in fighting poverty. In both schemes, the trade-off between labor supply incentives … weaker redistributive effects. -- in-work benefits ; multi-sectoral labor supply ; poverty ; microsimulation ; married …

At the European level and in most EU member states, higher employment levels are seen as key to better poverty outcomes … rising employment on relative income poverty. This method has serious limitations. We propose a more sophisticated simulation … impact on relative income poverty of moving towards the Europe 2020 target of 75 percent of the working aged population in …