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 … system of meanstested income support. -- minimum wage, wage distribution ; working poor ; poverty reduction ; microsimulation …

individual incomes to yield a final outcome measure for welfare analyses often suffers from partial unit non-response (PUNR), i … substantive results in the inequality research. We find indications of substantial bias on income inequality and poverty as well …