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The minimum wage versus the earned income tax credit for reducing poverty : enhancing the earned income tax credit would do more to reduce poverty, at less cost, than increasing th...

Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2015

Minimum wage increases are not an effective mechanism for reducing poverty. And there is little causal evidence that … to reduce poverty. It raises only the after-tax wage rates of workers in low- and moderate-income families, its tax …

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The minimum wage versus the earned income tax credit for reducing poverty : enhancing the earned income tax credit would do more to reduce poverty, at less cost, than increasing th...

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Corinth, Kevin - 2021

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Employment and Distribution Effects of the Minimum Wage

Slonimczyk, Fabián; Skott, Peter - 2011

This paper analyzes the effects of the minimum wage on wage inequality, relative employment and over-education. Using an efficiency wage model we show that over-education can be generated endogenously and that an increase in the minimum wage can raise both total and low-skill employment, and...

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Employment and distribution effects of the minimum wage

Slonimczyk, Fabián; Skott, Peter - 2010

Using an efficiency wage model we show that over-education can be generated endogenously and that an increase in the minimum wage can raise both total and low-skill employment, and produce a fall in inequality. Evidence from the US suggests that these theoretical results are empirically...

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The incidence of an earned income tax credit : evaluating the impact on wage in the UK

Azmat, Ghazala Yasmeen (contributor) - 2006

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Impacts of the earned income tax credit on wages of ineligible workers

Farmand, Aida - 2019

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Income assistance programs and population health : the dual impact of minimum wages and the earned income tax credit

Lenhart, Otto; Chakraborty, Kalyan - In: Economics letters 234 (2024), pp. 1-7

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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 …

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Employment and distribution effects of the mnimum wage

Slonimczyk, Fabián; Skott, Peter - 2012

This paper analyzes the effects of the minimum wage on wage inequality, relative employment and over-education. We show that over-education can be generated endogenously and that an increase in the minimum wage can raise both total and low-skill employment, and produce a fall in inequality....

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Alternative Labor Market Policies to Increase Economic Self-Sufficiency : Mandating Higher Wages, Subsidizing Employment, and Raising Productivity

Neumark, David - 2021

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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