, 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 …

This study provides an overview of inequality trends in Indonesia for the period from 1984 to 2002. Different from … previous studies on inequality in Indonesia, we use data on household consumption expenditure that takes into account price … actually increased for those below the poverty line. We also found that because inequality during the peak of the crisis in …

programmes. We conduct a poverty and inequality decomposition analysis as well as a benefit-incidence analysis to examine the … negligible poverty reducing effects at the national level. The contribution of welfare benefits to reducing inequality is mixed … to the distribution of income. Further simulation analysis indicates that expanding coverage under poverty targeting …

increased urban poverty. Using a large repeated cross-section household survey data from 1986 to 2000, this study maps out the … change in income, inequality, and poverty over the 15 year period and investigates the determinants of poverty. It is found … that the increase in the poverty rate in the 1990s is associated with the increase in the relative food price, and the need …