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Minimum Wages, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and Employment : Evidence from the Post-Welfare Reform Era

Neumark, David - 2007

We study the effects of minimum wages and the EITC in the post-welfare reform era. For the minimum wage, the evidence points to disemployment effects that are concentrated among young minority men. For young women, there is little evidence that minimum wages reduce employment, with the exception...

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Dynamics of Poor Health and Non-Employment

Haan, Peter - 2009

While there is little doubt that the probability of poor health increases with age, and that less healthy people face a more difficult situation on the labour market, the precise relationship between facing the risks of health deterioration and labour market instability is not well understood....

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Poverty and Transitions in Health

Adena, Maja - 2013

find that poverty defined with respect to relative incomes has no effect on changes in health. However, broader measures of … poor material conditions such as subjective poverty or low relative value of wealth significantly increase the probability … analysed.In addition to this the subjective measure of poverty has a significant effect on mortality, increasing it by 40 …

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Making Work Pay : Increasing Labour Supply of Secondary Earners in Low Income Families with Children

Kurowska, Anna - 2015

objectives of higher employment and lower poverty levels.In this paper we present a simulation exercise to examine labour supply … increasing the potential of in-work support to alleviate poverty …

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Financial Support for Families with Children and its Trade-Offs : Balancing Redistribution and Parental Work Incentives

Myck, Michal - 2013

poverty, low female employment and one of the lowest fertility rates in Europe. We demonstrate the complexity of potential …

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Safety Net Still in Transition : Labour Market Incentive Effects of Extending Social Support in Poland

Haan, Peter; Myck, Michal - 2021

governments have so far taken concerning the system of support for low-income families still implies very different poverty …

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As SIMPL As That : Introducing a Tax-Benefit Microsimulation Model for Poland

Bargain, Olivier; Morawski, Leszek; Myck, Michal; … - 2021

The Polish tax and benefit system is presented in the context of a recently developed microsimulation model, SIMPL. The model allows simulating direct taxes, social contributions and public benefits in Poland for the years 2003 and 2005. It is based on the Household Budgets Survey data (Badania...

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The Effects of Living Wage Laws on Low-Wage Workers and Low-Income Families : What Do We Know Now?

Neumark, David - 2013

in urban poverty …

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Simulating the Economic Impacts of Living Wage Mandates Using New Public and Administrative Data : Evidence for New York City

Neumark, David - 2013

Policy researchers often have to estimate the future effect of imposing a policy in a particular location. There is often evidence on the effects of similar policies in other jurisdictions, but no information on the effects of the policy in the jurisdiction in question. And the policy may have...

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The Econometrics and Economics of the Employment Effects of Minimum Wages : Getting from Known Unknowns to Known Knowns

Neumark, David - 2018

I discuss the econometrics and the economics of past research on the effects of minimum wages on employment in the United States. My intent is to try to identify key questions raised in the recent literature, and some from the earlier literature, which I think hold the most promise for...

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