Despite unprecedented extensions of available unemployment insurance (UI) benefits during the "Great Recession" of 2007 … food stamps and other safety net programs. The share of families with income below the poverty line nearly doubles. These …

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 …

as the labour market tightens. When the local unemployment rate is high, young adults from a disadvantaged background are …

as the labour market tightens. When the local unemployment rate is high, young adults from adisadvantaged background are …