Minimum wage increases are not a very effective mechanism for reducing poverty. They are not related to decreases in … poverty rates. They can cost some low-income workers their jobs. And most minimum wage earners who gain from a higher minimum … wage do not live in poor (or near-poor) families. A better tool for reducing poverty, and at lower cost, is the earned …

inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels … income ; inequality ; poverty … different results from those using all other scales with respect to the relative income and poverty levels of vulnerable groups …

stagnation of median market income growth and the rise in market income inequality since 1969. … transfer programs - especially in-kind transfers. Conventional measures of median income and income inequality that exclude the …

Estimates of UK income inequality trends differ substantially according to whether estimates are based on household … top incomes in the latter, and provide improved estimates of UK inequality trends since the mid-1990s. We show there was a … marked increase in income inequality in the early 2000s that survey-based estimates do not reveal, and our conclusions are …

Estimates of UK income inequality trends differ substantially according to whether estimates are based on household … top incomes in the latter, and provide improved estimates of UK inequality trends since the mid-1990s. We show there was a … marked increase in income inequality in the early 2000s that survey-based estimates do not reveal, and our conclusions are …