poverty, covering 21 European countries with a national minimum wage and three US States (New Jersey, Nebraska and Texas). It … or exceed the EU's at-risk-of poverty threshold, set at 60 per cent of median equivalent household income in each country … what minimum wage policies alone can achieve in the fight against in-work poverty. The route of raising minimum wages to …

market regulations such as minimum wage legislation because they constrain job creation and hence increase poverty. On the … poverty. We take advantage of a complex minimum wage system in a poor country that has been exposed to the forces of … globalization to test whether minimum wages are an effective poverty reduction tool in this environment. We find the net effect of …

Although poverty is widely recognised as a multidimensional phenomenon, we still believe that monetary aspect has a … according to a fuzzy approach that, unlike conventional methods, is consistent with the vague nature of poverty and preserves …

Measuring poverty remains a complex and contentious issue. This is particularly true in sub-Saharan Africa where … poverty rates are higher, information bases typically weaker, and the underlying determinants of welfare relatively volatile … poverty with focus on the period 2002/03 to 2008/09. The paper contributes in four areas. First, the period in question was …

. The implications of directly incorporating group disparities into the measurement of poverty for poverty comparisons and … manifest themselves in the process of seeking a real-valued index of poverty which is required to satisfy certain seemingly … desirable properties. It indicates how ‘group-sensitive’ poverty measures, similar to the Anand-Sen (1995) ‘Gender Adjusted …

In this paper, we present a new model for constructing poverty lines. The model uses consumer theory to construct both … food and nonfood poverty thresholds. Although one cannot completely eliminate the value judgments inherent in the … construction of poverty thresholds, this model helps to make the ad hoc assumptions that are generally made more justifiable. The …

Until recently, poverty was a relatively unexplored field of studies in Turkey. This is one of the first attempts … picture of poverty and its main driving forces. The 1994 data remain until today the latest household level data available for … Turkey. The paper finds that Turkey does not face a problem of absolute poverty by the standards of a developing country (in …

Ein Argument für die Einführung eines gesetzlichen Mindestlohnes in Deutschland ist die Verringerung von Armut der … unteren Bereich verbunden wäre, ist ein Mindestlohn - gemessen am Nettoeinkommen der Haushalte - kein geeignetes Instrument … zur Reduktion von Armut und Ungleichheit, selbst wenn Beschäftigungsneutralität unterstellt wird. Durch die Lohnsteigerung …

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 …