We study the causal impact of the minimum wage on employment and welfare in Thailand using a difference …

In-work poverty became a prominent policy issue in the United States long before the term itself acquired any meaning … and relevance in other industrialized countries. With America's embrace of an employment-centered antipoverty strategy … much in-work poverty is there in the United States? How does the US compare to other rich democracies? Has America's in …

-scale agriculture. Informalization has dampened the impact of the crisis and served to protect the poor, stabilizing the poverty rate at …The labor market is the main channel through which economic growth affects poverty. This paper is the first empirical … economic turmoil in 1992-1995. Despite the catastrophic fall in GDP employment contracted only marginally. This flexibility has …

The paper examines the relative effectiveness of two policy proposals in reducing unemployment and working poverty … to all low-wage earners regardless of their employment history and are of limitless duration. Our analysis indicates that … workers are (i.e. the more their wages rise with employment duration), the more effective will unemployment vouchers be …

employment creation nor the decrease in within-country inequality are automatically assured by increasing trade and FDI. The … other main findings of the paper are that: 1) the employment effect can be very diverse in different areas of the world … and absolute poverty alleviation, although some important counter-examples emerge. …

Despite increasing average real family incomes in Costa Rica in the late 1990s and early 2000s, poverty rates did not … fall. In this paper, we argue that during this period economic growth in Costa Rica did not translate into reduced poverty …-employed workers. These labor market phenomena, in turn, contributed to low incomes for households vulnerable to poverty, especially …

uncovered sectors) and employment status (unemployment and out of the labor force), and c) transitions into and out of poverty … market outcomes in Nicaragua including: a) wages and employment, b) transitions of workers across jobs (in the covered and … and decreases in employment of private covered sector workers who have wages within 20% of the minimum wage before the …

employment effects, in our analysis of California cities we find a hint of negative employment effects, but the estimates are …

laws reduce employment among the least-skilled workers they are intended to help. But they also increase wages for many of … in urban poverty. …