In view of rising wage inequality and increasing poverty, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become … ineffective in reducing poverty, even if it led to a substantial increase in hourly wages at the bottom of the wage distribution …

Using counterfactual microsimulations, Shapley decompositions of time change in inequality and poverty indices make it … depth of poverty would have increased under the first New Labour government, had important reforms like the extensions of … income support and tax credits not been implemented. These reforms have also contributed to substantially reduce poverty …

many development issues such as poverty reduction and social security, and despite the fact that population ageing will … fiscal burden on Ukraine, it significantly reduced the propensity of falling into poverty for those in retirement. …

poverty, covering 21 European countries with a national minimum wage and three US States (New Jersey, Nebraska and Texas). It … or exceed the EU's at-risk-of poverty threshold, set at 60 per cent of median equivalent household income in each country … what minimum wage policies alone can achieve in the fight against in-work poverty. The route of raising minimum wages to …

WTC is more effective than the EITC in fighting poverty. In both schemes, the trade-off between labor supply incentives …

in urban poverty. …

We study an innovative welfare program in Chile which combines a period of frequent home visits to households in … extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression discontinuity …

We study an innovative welfare program in Chile which combines a period of frequent home visits to households in … extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression discontinuity …