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below average earnings. -- Living Wage ; Poverty ; Inequality ; Minimum Wage …
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new public data sources. -- living wage ; employment ; poverty …
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We estimate the effect of the introduction of the UK’s National Living Wage in 2016, and increases in it up to 2019, using a new empirical method. We apply a bunching approach to a setting with no geographical variation in minimum wage rates. We effectively compare employment changes in each...
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changes on employment, prices, consumption, and poverty. …
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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 … system of means-tested income support. -- Minimum wage ; wage distribution ; working poor ; poverty reduction ; micro-simulation …
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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 … system of meanstested income support. -- minimum wage, wage distribution ; working poor ; poverty reduction ; microsimulation …
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Amidst the bleak picture of increasing joblessness and indebtedness presented by employment surveys and debt surveys, a minimum standard of living for India's poor seems to be under threat. The sudden exogenous shock of COVID-19 to the incomes of the poor has made the case of a minimum income...
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, this paper summarizes research findings on the relationship between urbanization, urban-rural inequality, and poverty, and … provides further empirical evidence on the role of urbanization and government policies in urban poverty. Several conclusions … can be drawn from. First, urbanization has a significant effect on reducing both poverty of rural residents and poverty of …
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, 100, and 125 percent of the federal poverty threshold. The long run (3 or more years) minimum wage elasticity of the non …-elderly poverty rate with respect to the minimum wage ranges between -0.22 and -0.55 across alternative specifications that subsume …
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