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 …

In this paper, we analyse the intergenerational transmission of poverty from Polish parents to their children through … on children´s education. We conclude that, if poverty transmission takes place between generations, this seems to be … primarily caused by the inheritance of human capital rather than by pure wealth effects. …

developed. Subsequently, on the basis of LIS data the effectiveness and efficiency in reducing poverty through social assistance …

the catching-up hypothesis backward economies may get stuck in a poverty trap. Growth in lagging economies is not driven …. Economies can escape the poverty trap by reducing trade barriers, but the benefits from an open economy is highest in middle …

options for poverty alleviation in a given country. When a population can be divided into subgroups according to an easily … identifiable characteristic, the problem of alleviating poverty through a targeted mechanism can be viewed as one of choosing of …

The objective of this work is to assess the changes in poverty and inequality that have taken place in Latin America …