High risk of poverty and low employment rates are widespread among low-skilled groups, especially in the case of some … on their promises? If they do reduce poverty and enhance employment, is it possible to determine their effects on …

poverty. In contrast, the authors of this paper adopt a more flexible "reduced-form" approach that links increases in both … federal and state minima to contemporaneous changes in poverty rates. For the period 1983-96, they find indications of a … poverty-reducing effect of minimum wages among teenagers and older junior high school dropouts …

Germany. Although the reductionof income inequality and poverty were emphasized as policy goals of the of minimumwage …. Based on data from the German Socio-EconomicPanel we analyze changes in wage and income inequality, poverty, and … moreeffective in reducing inequality and poverty …

This study aims to analyze the contribution of the minimum wage valorization policy to the reduction in poverty that … occurred in the first decade of the 21st century in Brazil, considering not only the incidence of poverty but also its … contributed to a 38.2% reduction in the proportion of impoverished people, a 39.4% reduction in the intensity of poverty and 40 …

.S. law entrenches family poverty in the United States, making it impossible for the EITC - or any other modest earnings … subsidy - to make meaningful reductions in poverty, even among workers. According to realistic measures of social inclusion … and economic well-being, the EITC reduces poverty only modestly, and even the maximum credit falls short of closing the …

last decades. Early versions of in-work benefits in the US, the UK and Ireland, primarily motivated as a poverty …