short-run wages, but fared significantly better in the longer run. Second, we compare labor market outcomes of subsidized … wages of workers would not have differed significantly, if they had been hired in another industry instead. However, we find … significant differences in short-term wages, employment and tenure outcomes across industries. Finally, from a fiscal point of …

short-run wages, but fared significantly better in the longer run. Second, we com-pare labor market outcomes of subsidized … wages of workers would not have differed significantly, if they had been hired in an-other industry instead. However, we … find significant differences in short-term wages, employment and tenure outcomes across industries. Finally, from a fiscal …

Some individuals work nearly full-time and most-year at low wages but remain poor. An effective way to assist the …

used or can be used to increase economic self-sufficiency by increasing earnings, including mandating higher wages … place in the United States, including minimum and living wages, the Earned Income Tax Credit, wage subsidies, and school …-to-work programs. Finally, it considers alternative policies that have recently been proposed. -- Minimum wages ; living wages ; earned …