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Labor markets, inequality and poverty in Georgia
Yemtsov, Ruslan - 2001
The labor market is the main channel through which economic growth affects poverty. This paper is the first empirical …-scale agriculture. Informalization has dampened the impact of the crisis and served to protect the poor, stabilizing the poverty rate at …
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Does increasing the minimum wage reduce poverty in developing countries? : whether raising minimum wages reduces - or increases - poverty depends on the characteristics of the labo...
Gindling, Thomas - 2014
Raising the minimum wage in developing countries could increase or decrease poverty, depending on labor market … poor households. Whether raising minimum wages reduces poverty depends not only on whether formal sector workers lose jobs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011416331
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The effects of living wage laws on low-wage workers and low-income families : what do we know now?
Neumark, David; Thompson, Matthew; Koyle, Leslie - In: IZA journal of labor policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-34
urban poverty. …
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Minimum wage : does it improve welfare in Thailand?
Del Carpio, Ximena V.; Messina, Julián; Sanz de … - 2014
We study the causal impact of the minimum wage on employment and welfare in Thailand using a difference-in-difference approach that relies on exogenous policy variation in minimum wages across provinces. We find that minimum-wage increases have small disemployment effects on female, elderly, and...
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Simulating the economic impacts of living wage mandates using new public and administrative data : evidence for New York City
Neumark, David; Thompson, Matthew; Brindisi, Francesco; … - In: Economic development quarterly : the journal of … 27 (2013) 4, pp. 271-283
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Do minimum wages stimulate productivity and growth? : minimum wage increases fail to stimulate growth and can have a negative impact on vulnerable workers during recessions
Sabia, Joseph J. - 2015
Proponents of minimum wage increases have argued that such hikes can serve as an engine of economic growth and assist low-skilled individuals during downturns in the business cycle. However, a review of the literature provides little empirical support for these claims. Minimum wage increases...
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Understanding the relationship between growth and employment in Nigeria
Ajakaiye, Olu; Jerome, Afeikhena T.; Nabena, David; … - 2015
's paradox of high economic growth alongside rising poverty and inequality. The methodology adopted is the Shapley decomposition …
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The distributional and employment impacts of nationwide minimum wage changes
Cribb, Jonathan; Giupponi, Giulia; Joyce, Robert; … - 2021
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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Can cash transfers aid labour market recovery? : evidence from South Africa’s special COVID-19 grant
Köhler, Tim; Bhorat, Haroon - 2021
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Social distress and (some) relief : estimating the impact of pandemic job loss on poverty in South Africa
Bassier, Ihsaan; Budlender, Joshua; Goldman, Maya - 2022
Up-to-date, nationally representative household income/expenditure data are crucial to estimating poverty during the … COVID-19 pandemic and to policy-making more broadly, but South Africa lacks such data. We present new pandemic poverty …-loss-induced poverty: a headcount ratio increase at the upper-bound poverty line of 5.2 percentage points (3.1 million people/13 per cent …
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