urban poverty. …

employing rather restrictive assumptions that guarantee the conclusion that an increase in the minimum wage reduces poverty. In … contemporaneous changes in poverty rates. For the period 1983-96, we find indication of a poverty-reducing effect of minimum wages …

consistent with the conclusions reached by prior research, including Holzer's (2008) review of that earlier evidence. Living wage … in urban poverty. -- living wage ; wages ; employment ; poverty …

employing rather restrictive assumptions that guarantee the conclusion that an increase in the minimum wage reduces poverty. In … contemporaneous changes in poverty rates. For the period 1983-96, we find indication of a poverty-reducing effect of minimum wages …

Recent studies find in-work poverty to be a pan-European phenomenon. Yet in-work poverty has come to the fore as a … alleviating poverty among workers, both the policy options and constraints facing Continental European policymakers are … impact on in-work poverty but in settings where wages are compressed, as in Belgium, a severe trade-off between coverage and …

that balances goals of reducing poverty, encouraging employment and fiscal sustainability. Using the OECD’s Tax-Benefit and …-wage earners would make inroads into poverty and inequality while encouraging formal work. This paper accompanies and extends the …