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urban poverty. …
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urban poverty. …
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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 …
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Living wage campaigns have succeeded in about 100 jurisdictions in the United States but have also been unsuccessful in numerous cities. These unsuccessful campaigns provide a better control group or counterfactual for estimating the effects of living wage laws than the broader set of all cities...
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The principal means by which individuals and families achieve economic self-sufficiency is through labor market earnings. As a consequence, it is natural for policy makers to look to interventions that increase the ability of individuals and families to achieve an adequate standard of living...
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poverty rates of low-wage workers. I review the characteristics of these laws and where they have been implemented to date …
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productivity, higher wages, and large reductions in poverty. Recent developments of information and communication technology …
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close to the at-risk-of-poverty threshold. Indeed, in most European countries the national threshold is actually exceeded …. This makes raising the minimum wage seem a relatively blunt instrument for reducing the risk of poverty. In 2018, for … influence on the risk of poverty. At 26 per cent, the proportion of income poverty among part-time employees with an hourly wage …
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