disemployment, ultimately reducing net urban poverty. Second, this article expands the analysis of distributional effects beyond the … poverty threshold. It was not found that living wage laws increase the depth of poverty among families that remain poor; on … the other hand, families somewhat below and somewhat above the poverty line are helped. Finally, this article suggests …

of poverty in metropolitan (metro) areas. The authors investigate poverty change over the last business cycle, a period … of overall strong economic growth. Their analysis identifies evidence of both poverty reduction and persistence. Findings … show a general decline in poverty, with decline greatest in the metro areas with the highest poverty rates at the beginning …

Advocates of living wage laws claim wage mandates will help families escape poverty by increasing family earnings … beyond the poverty line. This article examines such programs and the effect a change in pay would have on taxes and benefits … earnings below the poverty line take advantage of programs specifically designed to help them out of poverty. Phase-out rates …

culprits of the “jobless growth” in Indonesian manufacturing sector for the period of 1999-2008, a period of recovery from the … Asian Crisis. This can also endanger the poverty reduction aspiration during the same period. We simulate the situation … help the economy recover and reduces poverty but when constrained with the increasing real wage, the recovery and the rate …

that has relegated social issues to timid and short-term responses to poverty. The soup kitchens historical narrative is …

The objective of this paper is to develop a version of the MIRAGE model with household heterogeneity and a public agent …, to better analyze the impact of trade liberalization and other trade reforms on real income and welfare at the household … level In a first step, the model disaggregates the representative household into up to 13-39 households in five developing …

In this paper, we examine the effect of migrants’ remittances on poverty and inequality. The survey data were collected … scenario without remittances; this is then compared with its current income. We find that the poverty rate and the …